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Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 2004. — xii + 156 p. — ISBN: 0858835452. The Inanwatan language is spoken in three places. First, in the village Inanwatan on the south coast of the Bird's Head peninsula, where the Siganoi waters into the MacCluer Gulf. Inanwatan is the main village of the lnanwatan district (Kecamatan lnanwatan). Second, at the southern entrance of Sele Strait which separates Salawati island from the Bird's Head peninsula. And finally in the lalan Ferry area of Sorong, the capital of the Sorong regency. These three communities maintain intensive contacts and I have not been able to detect dialectal differences when I visited those communities. The Sele Strait and Sorong communities consist of migrants from the village Inanwatan. The Inanwatan language is dying out in a process of generational erosion. Generally speaking, only people older than around fifty speak and understand it well. For these older people, Inanwatan still is a major means of daily communication that they use alongside local Malay. Children of elementary school age as a rule do not know the Inanwatan language; they speak the loca

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Author

De Vries Lourens.

Publisher

Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University; Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780858835450

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Language Learning, Humanities