West Arawe language

West Arawe
Region West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea
Native speakers
(10,800 cited 1981–2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
apo  Apalik (Ambul)
gip  Gimi (Loko)
mwg  Aiklep
aaw  Solong (Arowe)
Glottolog west2530[2]

West Arawe is an Austronesian dialect chain of West New Britain, Papua New Guinea. The principal varieties are Apalik, Gimi, Aiklep, and Arawe proper (Solong).

References

  1. Apalik (Ambul) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Gimi (Loko) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Aiklep at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Solong (Arowe) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "West Arawe". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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