Not to be confused with the East Cenderawasih Bay languages.
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West New Guinea | |
Geographic distribution | Cenderawasih Bay, Western New Guinea, Indonesia |
Linguistic classification | Austronesian |
Glottolog | cend1238 |
The Cenderawasih languages, approximately synonymous with West New Guinea languages, are a branch of Austronesian languages of Indonesia, found in the islands and shoreline of Cenderawasih Bay in the provinces of West Papua, Central Papua and Papua.
Most of the languages are only known from short word lists, but Biak is fairly well attested.
Languages
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Halmahera Sea |
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