Yagwoia language

Yagwoia
Yagwoia
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Morobe, Eastern Highlands, Gulf provinces
Native speakers	10,000 (2005)
Language family	Trans–New Guinea Angan Yagwoia; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ygw
Glottolog	yagw1240

Yagwoia (Yeghuye), or Kokwaiyakwa, is an Angan language of Papua New Guinea. Dialects are named after the five ethnicities, Iwalaqamalje, Hiqwaye, Hiqwase, Gwase, Heqwangilye (Yeqwangilje dialect).

Distribution[]

Yagwoia is spoken in:^[2]

Eastern Highlands Province: Iqwalaqamalje
Gulf Province: Gwase
Morobe Province: Hiqwase, Hiqwaye, and Yeqwangilje

External links[]

Paradisec have an open access collection of Yagwoia recordings. They also have a collection of recordings that contain some Yagwoia.

References[]

^ Yagwoia at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
^ 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.

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[e18-1] Yagwoia at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Ethnologue22-PNG-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.

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