Biak language
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Name (Hebrew)
שפת ביאק
Name (Latin)
Biak language
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Malayan languages
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Indonesia
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MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q1961488
Library of congress:
sh 85013562
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: Soeparno. Kamus bahasa Biak-Indonesia, 1977.
- Ethnologue.
- Voegelin lang.
- Curr. trends ling.:v. 8, pp. 333, 430, 825-827, 1210.
Wikipedia description:
Biak (wós Vyak or 'Biak language'; wós kovedi or 'our language'; Indonesian: bahasa Biak), also known as Biak-Numfor, Noefoor, Mafoor, Mefoor, Nufoor, Mafoorsch, Myfoorsch and Noefoorsch, is an Austronesian language of the South Halmahera-West New Guinea subgroup of the Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages. According to Ethnologue, it is spoken by about 70,000 people in Biak and Numfor and numerous small islands in the Schouten Islands, located in Papua province of Western New Guinea, northeastern Indonesia.
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