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Sowanda language

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Sowanda
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionSandaun Province; Papua province, Indonesia
Native speakers
1,500 (2000–2003)[1]
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

Sowanda is a Papuan language of Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea, with a couple hundred speakers in Indonesian Papua.

Dialects

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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:[2][3]

References

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  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.