Auye (Auwje) and Dao (Maniwo) are the two dialects
[Moxness (2002: 6–7)] of a
Papuan language
The Papuan languages are the non-Austronesian and non- Australian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands, by around 4 million people. It is a strictly geogra ...
spoken in the
Paniai lakes region of the Indonesian province of
Papua Papua most commonly refers to:
* New Guinea, the world's second-largest island in the southwestern Pacific Ocean
* Western New Guinea, the western half of the island of New Guinea, which is administered by Indonesia.
** Papua (province), an Indonesi ...
.
References
Paniai Lakes languages
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