Mwatebu language

Mwatebu
Mwatebu
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Milne Bay Province
Native speakers	(120 cited 2000)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Oceanic Papuan Tip Nuclear Papuan Tip North Papuan Mainland – D'Entrecasteaux Dobu–Duau Mwatebu; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mwa
Glottolog	mwat1237
ELP	Mwatebu
	Mwatebu is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
	Coordinates: 10°02′08″S 151°05′52″E / 10.03556°S 151.097717°E

Mwatebu is an Austronesian language spoken in a single village in the D'Entrecasteaux Islands of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in the single village of Mwatebu (10°02′08″S 151°05′52″E / 10.03556°S 151.097717°E / -10.03556; 151.097717 (Mwatebu)) in Duau Rural LLG, Milne Bay Province.^[2]^[3]

References

^ Mwatebu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Papua New Guinea languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
^ United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.

This Papua New Guinea-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

This article about Papuan Tip languages is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.