Northwest Bomberai languages

Northwest Bomberai languages
Northwest Bomberai
Geographic
distribution:
Bomberai Peninsula, New Guinea
Linguistic classification: Austronesian
Subdivisions:

The Northwest Bomberai languages are a pair of minor Austronesian languages spoken on the northern coast of the Bomberai Peninsula of Indonesian Papua. They are:

Bedoanas, Erokwanas



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