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Dobu language

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Native to
  
ISO 639-3
  
dob

Region
  
Milne Bay Province, tip of Cape Vogel

Native speakers
  
10,000 (1998)60% monolingual (1998?)L2 speakers: 100,000 (1987)

Language family
  
AustronesianMalayo-PolynesianOceanicWestern OceanicPapuan TipNuclear Papuan TipNorth Papuan Mainland – D'EntrecasteauxDobu–DuauDobu

Writing system
  
Latin script (Dobuan alphabet)Dobuan Braille

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.

References

Dobu language Wikipedia


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