Sowanda language

Sowanda
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionSandaun Province; Papua province, Indonesia
Native speakers
(1,500 cited 2000–2003)
Border
  • Bewani Range
    • Bapi River
      • Sowanda
Dialects
  • Waina
  • Punda
  • Umeda
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
sow – Sowanda
upi – Umeda
Glottologsowa1245  Sowanda
umed1238  Umeda-Punda
ELPSowanda
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Sowanda is a Papuan language of Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea, with a couple hundred speakers in Indonesian Papua.

Dialects

There are three divergent varieties, Waina, Punda and Umeda, which may be distinct languages. They are each spoken in three different villages of Walsa Rural LLG in Sandaun Province:

References

  1. ↑ Sowanda at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Umeda at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ↑ Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Papua New Guinea languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
  3. ↑ United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.