Yapen languages (Austronesian)

Yapen
Geographic; distribution	Yapen Island, New Guinea
Linguistic classification	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central–Eastern South Halmahera–West New Guinea Cenderawasih Bay Yapen–Waropen Yapen; ; ; ; ; ;
Glottolog	yape1249[1]

The Yapen languages are the branch of Malayo-Polynesian languages spoken on Yapen Island and the nearby isle of Cenderawasih Bay, both in Papua province of northeastern Indonesia.

They share Yapen Ιsland with the Papuan Yawa languages.

Languages

The Yapen languages are:

Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Yapen". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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