Cenderawasih languages

Cenderawasih Bay
	West New Guinea
Geographic; distribution:	Cenderawasih Bay, New Guinea
Linguistic classification:	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian (MP) Nuclear MP (Central–Eastern) Halmahera–Cenderawasih Cenderawasih Bay; ; ; ; ;
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Glottolog:	cend1238

The Cenderawasih languages, approximately synonymous with West New Guinea languages, are a branch of Austronesian languages of Indonesia, found in the islands and shoreline of Cenderawasih Bay in the provinces of West Papua and Papua.

Most of the languages are only known from short word lists, but Biak is fairly well attested.

Languages

Biakic: Biak (Numfor), Dusner, Meoswar
Yapen (see)
Southwest: Yaur–Iresim, Yeretuar

References

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Cenderawasih Bay
West New Guinea
Geographic distribution:	Cenderawasih Bay, New Guinea
Linguistic classification:	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian (MP) Nuclear MP (Central–Eastern) Halmahera–Cenderawasih Cenderawasih Bay

Glottolog:	`cend1238`^[1]