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The One or West Wapei languages constitute a branch of the Torricelli language family. They are spoken in north-central
Sandaun Province Sandaun Province (formerly West Sepik Province) is the northwesternmost mainland province of Papua New Guinea. It covers an area of 35,920 km2 (13868 m2) and has a population of 248,411 (2011 census). The capital is Vanimo. In July 1998 the a ...
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Languages

Foley (2018) lists: : One,
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Vocabulary comparison

The following basic vocabulary words are from the Trans-New Guinea database, citing data from Laycock (1968) and SIL (2000):Summer Institute of Linguistics Language Survey of Seta, 2000. :


References

* Torricelli Range languages Languages of Sandaun Province {{papuan-lang-stub