Biga is a heavily
Papuan-influenced
Austronesian language spoken in
Southwest Papua
Southwest Papua ( id, Papua Barat Daya) is a province of Indonesia, and is a fraction of Western New Guinea. Despite being named southwest, it is a misnomer and this province is actually located in the northwest edge of Papua. The area that belo ...
, Indonesia in the south of the island of
Misool
Misool, formerly spelled Mysol (Dutch: Misoöl) or Misol, is one of the four major islands in the Raja Ampat Islands in Southwest Papua, Indonesia. Its area is 2,034 km2. The highest point is 561 m and the main towns are Waigama, located ...
. It is spoken in the single village of Biga in Misol Timur Selatan District.
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Paradisec
The Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) is a cross-institutional project that supports work on endangered languages and cultures of the Pacific and the region around Australia. They digitise reel-to ...
open access collection of
George Grace'
manuscriptsfrom the University of Hawai'i.
South Halmahera–West New Guinea languages
Languages of western New Guinea
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