Edwas, or Beneraf, is a

Papuan language The Papuan languages are the non- Austronesian and non-Australian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands, by around 4 million people. It is a strictly geogra ...

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. "Edwas", the name of a former village, is the native name; "Beneraf", the name of one of two current

villages A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

, is what the neighboring peoples and previously the Dutch use(d) for them.New Guinea World, Edwas
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standard confuses it with Bonerif, another language in the same family.

References

Languages of western New Guinea Orya–Tor languages {{papuan-lang-stub