Onin is a minor Austronesian language of the

Onin Peninsula Onin may refer to: * Ōnin, a Japanese era ** Ōnin War * Onin peninsula Onin may refer to: * Ōnin, a Japanese era ** Ōnin War The , also known as the Upheaval of Ōnin and Ōnin-Bunmei war, was a civil war that lasted from 1467 to 1477, during ...

Bomberai Bomberai Peninsula ( id, Semenanjung Bomberai), otherwise known as the Bird's Beak Peninsula ( id, Semenanjung Paruh Burung), is located in the Western New Guinea region, opposite to and to the south of the Bird's Head Peninsula. To the west lies ...

, Indonesian Papua. Despite the small number of speakers, it is the basis of a local

pidgin A pidgin , or pidgin language, is a grammatically simplified means of communication 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 from s ...

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Central Malayo-Polynesian languages Languages of western New Guinea {{austronesian-lang-stub