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Sowanda language

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Native to
  
Papua New Guinea

Language family
  
Border Waris Sowanda

ISO 639-3
  
sow

Native speakers
  
1,200 (2000–2002)

Dialects
  
Waina Punda-Umeda

Region
  
Sandaun Province; Papua province, Indonesia

Sowanda is a Papuan language of Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea, with a couple hundred speakers in Indonesian Papua.

There are two divergent varieties, Waina and Punda-Umeda, which may be distinct languages.

References

Sowanda language Wikipedia