Sowanda language

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Sowanda
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Sandaun Province; Papua province, Indonesia
Native speakers
1,500 (2000–2003) [1]
Border
  • Bewani Range
    • Bapi River
      • Sowanda
Dialects
  • Waina
  • Punda
  • Umeda
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
sow   Sowanda
upi   Umeda
Glottolog sowa1245  Sowanda
umed1238  Umeda-Punda
ELP Sowanda
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Sowanda is a Papuan language of Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea, with a couple hundred speakers in Indonesian Papua.

Dialects

There are three divergent varieties, Waina, Punda and Umeda, which may be distinct languages. They are each spoken in three different villages of Walsa Rural LLG in Sandaun Province: [2] [3]

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References

  1. Sowanda at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Umeda at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Papua New Guinea languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
  3. United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.