Waropen language

E695185

Waropen is an Austronesian language spoken by the Waropen people along the northern coast of Papua (Indonesia), known for its place within the South Halmahera–West New Guinea subgroup.

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Label Occurrences
Waropen language canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
natural language
closelyRelatedTo Biak language NERFINISHED
Yapen languages
continent Asia
country Indonesia
endangermentStatus vulnerable
glottocode waro1244
hasAlternativeName Warope NERFINISHED
Waropen NERFINISHED
hasDialect Masimasi dialect NERFINISHED
Napan dialect
Waropen Coast dialect
hasDomain Papuan coastal communities
hasMorphologicalType moderately agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive nasal and oral vowels
simple consonant inventory
hasWordOrder SVO
iso639-3Code wrp
isPartOf South Halmahera–West New Guinea linkage NERFINISHED
isSubjectOf Austronesian comparative studies
languageFamily Austronesian languages
macroArea Papunesia NERFINISHED
region northern coast of Papua
spokenBy Waropen people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Indonesia
Papua Province NERFINISHED
subgroupOf Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages NERFINISHED
South Halmahera–West New Guinea languages NERFINISHED
usedFor daily communication
traditional oral literature
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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