Woi language

{{Short description|Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Woi

|region=Papua, Indonesia

|speakers= 1,800

|date=2012

|ref=e18

|familycolor=Austronesian

|fam2=Malayo-Polynesian

|fam3=Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian

|fam4=Eastern Malayo-Polynesian

|fam5=South Halmahera–West New Guinea

|fam6=Cenderawasih Bay

|fam7=Yapen

|fam8=Central–Western

|iso3=wbw

|glotto=woii1237

|glottorefname=Woi

}}

Woi (Wooi) is a Malayo-Polynesian language of Papua, Indonesia mainly spoken in the villages of Wooi and Woinap on Yapen Island and the village of Yenuari on Moisnum Island.{{harvp|Sawaki|2016|p=2}}

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Further reading

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  • {{Cite book |last=Anceaux |first=J. C. |url=http://www.papuaweb.org/dlib/bk1/kitlv/anceaux-1961.pdf |title=The Linguistic Situation in the Islands of Yapen, Kurudu, Nau and Miosnum, New Guinea |publisher=Martinus Nijhoff |year=1961 |location=’s-Gravenhage |language=en |author-link=Johannes Cornelis Anceaux}}
  • {{Cite thesis |last=Sawaki |first=Yusuf Willem |title=A Grammar of Wooi: An Austronesian Language of Yapen Island, Western New Guinea |date=2016 |degree=PhD |publisher=Australian National University |doi=10.25911/5d6c3fd1c9f50 |doi-access=free |language=en |hdl=1885/136851 |hdl-access=free}}

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