Wutung language

Wutung
Sangke
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionSandaun Province
Native speakers
900 (2003)[1]
Dialects
  • Wutung
  • Sangke (Nyao)
Language codes
ISO 639-3wut
Glottologwutu1244
ELPWutung
Coordinates: 2°36′31″S 141°00′37″E / 2.60857°S 141.010203°E / -2.60857; 141.010203 (Wutung)
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Wutung (Udung) and Sangke (Nyao) are a Skou language or pair of languages of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in the villages of Wutung (2°36′31″S 141°00′37″E / 2.60857°S 141.010203°E / -2.60857; 141.010203 (Wutung)) and Sangke in Bewani/Wutung Onei Rural LLG of Sandaun Province.[2][3] The two varieties are sometimes considered separate languages.

Tok Pisin and English are widely spoken in the area, and many Wutung people speak Indonesian too.[4][5]

  1. ^ Wutung at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Papua New Guinea languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
  3. ^ United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
  4. ^ Marmion, Doug, Wutung: A Papuan language of the Sko Phylum spoken in Sandaun Province, PNG, Research Data Australia, doi:10.4225/72/56E824BE363A0, retrieved 2022-08-31
  5. ^ Marmion, Douglas E. (2010), Topics in the Phonology and Morphology of Wutung (PDF), Canberra: Australian National University, pp. 6, 13–15, archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-04-15