Sewa Bay | |
States: | Papua New Guinea |
Region: | Milne Bay Province |
Speakers: | 1,520 |
Date: | 1972 census |
Ref: | e18 |
Familycolor: | Austronesian |
Fam2: | Malayo-Polynesian |
Fam3: | Oceanic |
Fam4: | Western Oceanic |
Fam5: | Papuan Tip |
Fam6: | Nuclear Papuan Tip |
Fam7: | North Papuan Mainland – D'Entrecasteaux |
Fam8: | Dobu–Duau |
Iso3: | sew |
Glotto: | sewa1251 |
Glottorefname: | Sewa Bay |
Sewa Bay, or Duau Pwata, is a dialectically diverse Austronesian language spoken in the D'Entrecasteaux Islands of Papua New Guinea. Its dialects are Miadeba, Bwakera, Maiabare, Darubia, Sewataitai, Sibonai and Central Sewa Bay.[1] It is spoken in Milne Bay province: center of Normanby island, Sewa Bay area.