Dawawa

Primary tabs

ISO 639-3

Alternate Names

Dawana

Population

2,500 (1994 SIL). 500 monolinguals.

Location

Milne Bay province: Rabaraba district, west and inland from Wedau.

Language Maps

Language Status

5 (Developing).

Classification

Dialects

None known. Lexical similarity: 58% with Kakabai [kqf].

Language Use

Home, village. Also use English [eng], Hiri Motu [hmo], Wedau [wed]. Used as L2 by Kakabai [kqf].

Language Development

NT: 2002.

Language Resources

Writing

Latin script [Latn].