Kwanga language

Kwanga language

language
name=Kwanga
familycolor=Papuan
states=Papua New Guinea
region=East Sepik and Sandaun
speakers=10,000
fam1=Sepik-Ramu
fam2=Sepik
fam3=Middle Sepik
fam4=Nukuma
iso2=paa|iso3=kwj

Kwanga is a Sepik-Ramu language spoken in Papua New Guinea.

Classification

The 14th (2000) edition of Ethnologue classified Apos, Bongos, Wasambu and Yubanakor as distinct languages, and gave them the SIL codes APO, BXY, WSM and YUO, respectively. In the 15th (2005) edition, they are all classified as dialects of Kwanga.


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