Dobu language - Dobu language
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| Dobu | |
|---|---|
| Dobuan | |
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Milne Bay Province, tip of Cape Vogel |
Native speakers | 10,000 (1998)[1] 60% monolingual (1998?)[2] L2 speakers: 100,000 (1987)[1] |
| Latin script (Dobuan alphabet) Dobuan Braille | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | dob |
| Glottolog | dobu1241[3] |
Dobu or Dobuan is an Austronesian language spoken in Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. It is a lingua franca for 100,000 people in D'Entrecasteaux Islands.
External links
- An open access collection of singing in Dobu is available through Paradisec.
- Historical open access collections of recordings in Dobu are available through Paradisec, including the Malcome Ross collection (MR1) and two Arthur Campbell collections (AC1 and AC2)
References
- ^ a b Dobu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ^ Dobu language at Ethnologue (14th ed., 2000).
- ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Dobu". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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