Cenderawasih Bay | |
Also Known As: | West New Guinea |
Region: | Cenderawasih Bay, Western New Guinea, Indonesia |
Familycolor: | Austronesian |
Fam2: | Malayo-Polynesian |
Fam3: | Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian |
Fam4: | Eastern Malayo-Polynesian |
Fam5: | South Halmahera–West New Guinea |
Glotto: | cend1238 |
Glottorefname: | Cenderawasih Bay |
The Cenderawasih languages, approximately synonymous with West New Guinea languages, are a branch of Austronesian languages of Indonesia, found in the islands and shoreline of Cenderawasih Bay in the provinces of West Papua, Central Papua and Papua.
Most of the languages are only known from short word lists, but Biak is fairly well attested.