Waskia language
| Waskia | |
|---|---|
| Region | Papua New Guinea |
Native speakers | 20,000 (2007)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
wsk |
| Glottolog |
wask1241[2] |
Waskia (Vaskia, Woskia) is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken on half of Karkar Island, and a small part of the shore on the mainland, by 20,000 people; language use is vigorous. The Waskia share their island with speakers of Takia, an Oceanic language which has been restructured under the influence of Waskia, which is the inter-community language.
References
- ↑ Waskia at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Waskia". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Ross, Malcolm D.; John Natu Paol (1978). A Waskia grammar sketch and vocabulary. Canberra: Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-85883-174-2. OCLC 4524381.
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