Duvle language

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Duvle
Native to Indonesia
RegionDagai village in Dagai District, Puncak Jaya Regency, Papua
Native speakers
930 (2000) [1]
Lakes Plain
  • Duvle–East
    • Duvle
Language codes
ISO 639-3 duv
Glottolog duvl1242 [2]

Duvle (Sikwari) is a Lakes Plain language of Papua, Indonesia. It is spoken in Dagai village in Dagai District, Puncak Jaya Regency. [3]

Variant spellings are Duvde, Duve, Duvele, Duvre. It is also known as Wiri.

A Duvle-based pidgin is used with speakers of Wano.

Duvle-Wano Pidgin
Native speakers
None
Duvle-based pidgin
Language codes
ISO 639-3 None (mis)
Glottolog duvl1238 [4]

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References

  1. Duvle at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Duvle". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Clouse, Duane A. (1997). "Towards a reconstruction and reclassification of the Lakes Plain languages of Irian Jaya". In Karl Franklin (ed.). Papers in Papuan linguistics no. 2 (PDF). A-85. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 133–236. ISBN   0858834421.
  4. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Duvle-Wano-Pidgin". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.