Native to Papua New Guinea | 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 Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
Oceanic
Western Oceanic
Papuan Tip
Nuclear Papuan Tip
North Papuan Mainland – D'Entrecasteaux
Dobu–Duau
Dobu 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(Text) CC BY-SA