As language

{{Short description|Austronesian language}}

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{{Infobox language

| name = As

| nativename =

| states = Indonesia

| region = Bird's Head Peninsula

| pushpin_map = Indonesia_Western New Guinea#Indonesia Maluku

| coordinates = {{coord|-0.75|131.73|region:ID-PB}}

| speakers = 5-6

| date = 2020

| refname =

| familycolor = Austronesian

| fam2 = Malayo-Polynesian

| fam3 = Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian

| fam4 = Eastern Malayo-Polynesian

| fam5 = South Halmahera–West New Guinea

| fam6 = Raja Ampat–South Halmahera

| fam7 = Raja Ampat

| fam8 = Ambel-As

| iso3 = asz

| glotto = asss1237

| glottorefname = As

| ethnicity = As

| ref =

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As is an Austronesian language spoken in the village of Asbaken, on the north coast of the Doberai Peninsula, on the Indonesian portion of the island of New Guinea.{{Cite journal |last=Arnold |first=Laura |date=2020-07-31 |title=Four undocumented languages of Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia |url=https://www.lddjournal.org/article/id/1221/ |journal=Language Documentation and Description |language=en-US |volume=17 |doi=10.25894/ldd95 |issn=2756-1224}} It was possibly originally spoken on Gag Island.{{Cite journal |last1=Berry |first1=Keith |last2=Berry |first2=Christine |date=1987 |title=A survey of some West Papuan phylum languages |journal=Workpapers in Indonesian Languages and Cultures |volume=4 |pages=25–80}}

In 1987, Berry & Berry found approximately 300 speakers of As, but by 2020, Arnold found only six speakers, all elderly. The language is considered moribund as a result, though there is some interest among younger people in documenting the language before it is fully extinct.