Wab language
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Austronesian language spoken in Papua New Guinea
| Wab | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Wab and Saui villages, Huon Peninsula, Madang Province |
Native speakers | 120 (2000)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | wab |
| Glottolog | wabb1237 |
| ELP | Wab |
 Wab is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
Wab is an Austronesian language spoken by about 120 people in the coastal villages of Wab and Saui, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Wab at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
| Official languages | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Major Indigenous languages |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other Papuan languages |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sign languages | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sarmi–Jayapura | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schouten |
| ||||||||||||||||||
| Huon Gulf |
| ||||||||||||||||||
| Ngero–Vitiaz |
| ||||||||||||||||||
This article about North New Guinea languages is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |