West Arawe language

West Arawe
Region	West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea
Native speakers	(10,800 cited 1981–2000)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Oceanic North New Guinea Ngero–Vitiaz Southwest New Britain Arawe–Pasismanua Arawe West Arawe; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously:; apo – Apalik (Ambul); gip – Gimi (Loko); mwg – Aiklep; aaw – Solong (Arowe)
Glottolog	west2530[2]

West Arawe is an Austronesian dialect chain of West New Britain, Papua New Guinea. The principal varieties are Apalik, Gimi, Aiklep, and Arawe proper (Solong).

References

↑ Apalik (Ambul) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Gimi (Loko) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Aiklep at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Solong (Arowe) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "West Arawe". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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