Inanwatan

Inanwatan
Inanwatan
	Town
	Inanwatan Location of the town in the Bird's Head Peninsula Inanwatan Inanwatan (Western New Guinea) Inanwatan Inanwatan (Indonesia)
	Coordinates: 2°8′S 132°10′E
Province	West Papua
Regency	South Sorong
Time zone	UTC+9 (WIT)

Inanwatan is a small coastal town in West Papua, Indonesia. The town is located on the southern coast of the Bird's Head Peninsula.[1]

The area was named by the colonists from Patipi, who were impressed by the extent of the sago swamps here. The word inanwatan originates in a Patipi-language expression meaning "it is all sago" (from inan 'sago' and sewatan 'one').[2]

References

Family Reference Atlas of the World (Second Edition). National Geographic. p. 189.
Vries, L. J. de (2004). A short grammar of Inanwatan. An endangered language of the Bird's Head of Papua, Indonesia. Australian National University Press. p. 2. ISBN 978-0-85883-545-0.

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[1] Family Reference Atlas of the World (Second Edition). National Geographic. p. 189.

[2] Vries, L. J. de (2004). A short grammar of Inanwatan. An endangered language of the Bird's Head of Papua, Indonesia. Australian National University Press. p. 2. ISBN 978-0-85883-545-0.