Oweina language

Oweina
Waisara
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Eastern Highlands Province
Native speakers
(350 cited 1981)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 wsr
Glottolog owen1244[2]

Oweina (Owena, often misspelled "Owenia"),[3] or Waisara, after the two villages in which it is spoken, is a Kainantu language of Papua New Guinea.

References

  1. Oweina at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Owenia". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Tryon & Hackman (1983) Solomon Islands Languages: An Internal Classification
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