Woi language
{{Short description|Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Woi
|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}}
References
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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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External links
- Paradisec has an open access collection from Emily Gasser that includes [http://catalog.paradisec.org.au/collections/EAG1 Woi language materials]
{{Halmahera–Cenderawasih languages}}
{{Languages of Indonesia}}
Category:South Halmahera–West New Guinea languages
Category:Languages of Western New Guinea
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