Mwatebu language

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Mwatebu
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionMilne Bay Province
Native speakers
120 (2000)[1]
Language family
Austronesian
Language codes
ISO 639-3mwa
Glottologmwat1237
ELPMwatebu
Coordinates: 10°02′08″S 151°05′52″E / 10.03556°S 151.097717°E / -10.03556; 151.097717 (Mwatebu)Coordinates: 10°02′08″S 151°05′52″E / 10.03556°S 151.097717°E / -10.03556; 151.097717 (Mwatebu)

Mwatebu is an Austronesian language spoken in a single village in the D'Entrecasteaux Islands of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in the single village of Mwatebu (

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10°02′08″S 151°05′52″E / 10.03556°S 151.097717°E / -10.03556; 151.097717 (Mwatebu)) in Duau Rural LLG, Milne Bay Province.[2][3]

References[]

  1. ^ Mwatebu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  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.
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