Elseng language

Elseng language
Elseng
Morwap
Spoken in Papua, Indonesia
Native speakers 300  (date missing)
Language family
Border ?
  • Elseng
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mrf

Elseng (Morwap) is a poorly documented Papuan language spoken by about 300 people (as of 1991) in the Indonesian province of Papua. It is also known as Morwap, which means "what is it?"

Laycock classified Elseng as a language isolate, but noted pronominal similarities with the Border languages. Ross included it in Border because of these similarities, but noted that it doos not appear to share any lexical similarities with the family. However, this may be an effect of the paucity of data on Elseng.

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