Duwet

GVE

threatened

Alternate Names: Guwet, Guwot, Waing

Genealogy:

Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
Oceanic
Western Oceanic
North New Guinea
Huon Gulf
Markham
Lower
Busu

Demographics: 400 (2011 SIL), increasing. 0 monolinguals. Ethnic population: 450.

Language Use: Potentially endangered (2000 D. Tryon). Under pressure from Wampar [lbq] and Tok Pisin [tpi], which children prefer. Only when other Duwet speakers present. All ages. Very positive attitudes.

Language Development: Literacy rate in L2: 70%. Poetry.

Nation of Origin: Papua New Guinea