Woi language
Woi (Wooi) is a Malayo-Polynesian language of Papua, Indonesia mainly spoken in the villages of Wooi and Woinap on Yapen Island and the village of Yenuari on Moisnum Island.[3]
| Woi | |
|---|---|
| Region | Papua, Indonesia |
Native speakers | 1,800 (2012)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | wbw |
| Glottolog | woii1237 |
| ELP | Woi[2] |
External links
- Paradisec has an open access collection from Emily Gasser that includes Woi language materials
References
- Woi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Endangered Languages Project data for Woi.
- Sawaki (2016), p. 2
- Anceaux, J. C. (1961). The Linguistic Situation in the Islands of Yapen, Kurudu, Nau and Miosnum, New Guinea (PDF). ’s-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff.
- Sawaki, Yusuf Willem (2016). A grammar of Wooi: An Austronesian language of Yapen Island, Western New Guinea (PDF) (PhD thesis). Australian National University. doi:10.25911/5d6c3fd1c9f50v. hdl:1885/136851.
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