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Ewage language

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Ewage
Notu
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionOro Province
Native speakers
12,000 (2015)[1]
Dialects
  • Ewage-Notu
  • Yega (Gona, Okeina, Okena)
Language codes
ISO 639-3nou
Glottologewag1241

Ewage, also known as Notu, is a Papuan language spoken in the "tail" of Papua New Guinea. Preference for the name depends on the region. Its two dialects are Sose/Sohe (Western Plains Orokaiva) and Ifane/Ihane (Eastern Plains Orokaiva) (Smallhorn 2011:47).

References

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  1. ^ Ewage at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  • Smallhorn, Jacinta Mary. 2011. The Binanderean languages of Papua New Guinea: reconstruction and subgrouping. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.