Woi language

"Woi" redirects here. For other uses, see WOI (disambiguation).

Woi
Region	Papua (Yapen Island)
Native speakers	1,800 (2012) [1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian Eastern Malayo-Polynesian South Halmahera–West New Guinea Cenderawasih Bay Yapen Central–Western Woi
Language codes
ISO 639-3	wbw
Glottolog	woii1237
ELP	Woi

Woi (Wooi) is a Malayo-Polynesian language of Papua, Indonesia mainly spoken in the villages of Wooi and Woinap on Yapen Island and the village of Yenuari on Moisnum Island. ^[2]

References

1. Woi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Sawaki (2016) , p. 2

Further reading

• Anceaux, J. C. (1961). The Linguistic Situation in the Islands of Yapen, Kurudu, Nau and Miosnum, New Guinea (PDF). ’s-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff.
• Sawaki, Yusuf Willem (2016). A Grammar of Wooi: An Austronesian Language of Yapen Island, Western New Guinea (PhD thesis). Australian National University. doi: 10.25911/5d6c3fd1c9f50 . hdl: 1885/136851 .

External links

• Paradisec has an open access collection from Emily Gasser that includes Woi language materials