Native to West Papua, Indonesia Native speakers 3 (2011) Glottolog dusn1237 | Region Cenderawasih Bay ISO 639-3 dsn | |
Language family Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
Nuclear MP
Cenderawasih Bay
Biakic
Dusner–Tandia
Dusner | ||
Dusner is a language spoken in the village of Dusner in the province of Papua, Indonesia. Dusner is highly endangered, and has been reported to have just three remaining speakers.
In 2011, researchers from Oxford University's Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics began a project to document the vocabulary and grammar of the language, in collaboration with UNIPA (State University of Papua) and UNCEN (Cenderawasih University, Papua).
References
Dusner language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA