Dobu language

Dobu
	Dobuan
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Milne Bay Province, tip of Cape Vogel
Native speakers	10,000 (1998)[1]; 60% monolingual (1998?)[2]; L2 speakers: 100,000 (1987)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Oceanic Papuan Tip Nuclear Papuan Tip North Papuan Mainland – D'Entrecasteaux Dobu–Duau Dobu; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Latin script (Dobuan alphabet); Dobuan Braille
Language codes
ISO 639-3	dob
Glottolog	dobu1241

Dobu or Dobuan is an Austronesian language spoken in Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. It is a lingua franca for 100,000 people in D'Entrecasteaux Islands.

External links

An open access collection of singing in Dobu is available through Paradisec.
Historical open access collections of recordings in Dobu are available through Paradisec, including the Malcome Ross collection (MR1) and two Arthur Campbell collections (AC1 and AC2)

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