Yagwoia language

Yagwoia
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Morobe, Eastern Highlands, Gulf provinces
Native speakers
10,000 (2005)[1]
Trans–New Guinea
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ygw
Glottolog yagw1240[2]

Yagwoia (Yeghuye), or Kokwaiyakwa, is an Angan language of Papua New Guinea. Dialects are named after the five ethnicities, Iwalaqamalje, Hiqwaye, Hiqwase, Gwase, Heqwangilye (Yeqwangilje dialect).

References

  1. Yagwoia at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Yagwoia". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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