Cenderawasih languages
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Not to be confused with the East Cenderawasih Bay languages.
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, Central Papua and Papua.
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Cenderawasih Bay | |
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West New Guinea | |
Geographic distribution | Cenderawasih Bay, Western New Guinea, Indonesia |
Linguistic classification | Austronesian |
Glottolog | cend1238 |
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Most of the languages are only known from short word lists, but Biak is fairly well attested.