Wolani language

Wolani
Native to Indonesia
Region Papua
Ethnicity Wolani
Native speakers
(5,000 cited 1992)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 wod
Glottolog wola1243[2]

Wolani (Wodani) is a Papuan language spoken by about 5,000 people in the Paniai lakes region of the Indonesian province of Papua. It is related to the Moni, Ekari, Auye, and Dao languages and may be related to the Dani languages. Documentation is quite limited.

References

  1. Wolani at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Wolani". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  • Doble, Marion. 1962. Essays on Kapauku grammar.. Nieuw Guinea Studiën 6.152-5, 211-8, 279-98.
  • Drabbe, Peter. 1952. Spraakkunst van het Ekagi, Wisselmeren, Nederlands Nieuw Guinea. Den Haag: Martinus Nijhoff.

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