Onin or Onim is a dialect of
Sekar Onim language,
an
Austronesian language
The Austronesian languages ( ) are a language family widely spoken throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland Southeast Asia, Madagascar, the islands of the Pacific Ocean and Taiwan (by Taiwanese indigenous peoples). They are spoken b ...
of the
Onin Peninsula in
Bomberai,
West Papua. Despite the small number of speakers, it is the basis of a local
pidgin
A pidgin , or pidgin language, is a grammatically simplified form of contact language that develops between two or more groups of people that do not have a language in common: typically, its vocabulary and grammar are limited and often drawn f ...
.
It has 18 consonants and 5 vowels.
References
Central Malayo-Polynesian languages
Languages of Western New Guinea
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