Wambon language

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Wambon
Native toIndonesia
RegionPapua
Native speakers
(3,900 cited 1987–2003)[1]
Language family
Trans–New Guinea
Dialects
  • North (Digul, incl. Ketum)
  • South (Yonggom)[2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
wms – Wambon
ktt – Ketum
Glottologketu1239
ELPKetum

Wambon is a Papuan language of Papua, Indonesia.

References[]

  1. ^ Wambon at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Ketum at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ^ distinguish Yonggom language
  • Vries, Lourens de; Vries-Wiersma, Robinia de (1992). The Morphology of Wambon of the Irian Jaya Upper-Digul Area (PDF). Leiden: KITLV Press.
  • Lebold, Randy, Ron Kriens, Myo-Sook Sohn and Yunita Susanto. 2014. Report on the Upper Digul Helicopter Survey. SIL International.

External links[]

  • Digul Wambon at the Awyu–Ndumut research group at VU University Amsterdam:[1]
  • Yonggom Wambon at the Awyu–Ndumut research group at VU University Amsterdam:[2]


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