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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Pacific > Papua New Guinea > Diodio

Diodio

A language of Papua New Guinea

ISO 639-3ddi

Population  2,180 (2000). 20% monolingual.
Region  Milne Bay Province, Goodenough Island west coast.
Language map  Papua New Guinea, Map 17, reference number 781
Dialects  Iauiaula, Utalo, Awale, Central Diodio. Lexical similarity: 66% with Bwaidoka [bwd] (most similar).
Classification  Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Western Oceanic, Papuan Tip, Nuclear, North Papuan Mainland-D’Entrecasteaux, Bwaidoga
Language use  All domains. Also use Bwaidoka.
Language development  Literacy rate in L2: High.

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Academic Publications

KASSELL, Alison; LAMBRECHT, Philip, authors. 2012. "A Sociolinguistic Profile of the West and North Goodenough Groups."  Available online