Dobu language
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Austronesian language spoken in Papua New Guinea
Dobu | |
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Dobuan | |
Native to | Papua New Guinea |
Region | Milne Bay Province, tip of Cape Vogel |
Native speakers | 10,000 (1998)[1] 60% monolingual (1998?)[2] L2 speakers: 100,000 (1987)[1] |
Language family | Austronesian
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Writing system | Latin script (Dobuan alphabet) Dobuan Braille |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | dob |
Glottolog | dobu1241 |
Dobu or Dobuan is an Austronesian language spoken in Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. It is a lingua franca for 100,000 people in D'Entrecasteaux Islands.
External links[]
- An open access collection of singing in Dobu is available through Paradisec.
- Historical open access collections of recordings in Dobu are available through Paradisec, including the Malcome Ross collection (MR1) and two Arthur Campbell collections (AC1 and AC2)
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Dobu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ^ Dobu language at Ethnologue (14th ed., 2000).
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