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Ewage language

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Native to
  
Papua New Guinea

Native speakers
  
(13,000 cited 1988)

Region
  
Oro Province

ISO 639-3
  
nou

Language family
  
Trans–New Guinea Binanderean Ewage

Dialects
  
Ewage-Notu Yega (Gona, Okeina, Okena)

Ewage, also known as Notu, is a Papuan language spoken in the "tail" of Papua New Guinea. Preference for the name depends on the region. Its two dialects are Sose/Sohe (Western Plains Orokaiva) and Ifane/Ihane (Eastern Plains Orokaiva) (Smallhorn 2011:47).

References

Ewage language Wikipedia