Kaptiau (Kapitiauw) is an
Austronesian language
The Austronesian languages ( ) are a language family widely spoken throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland Southeast Asia, Madagascar, the islands of the Pacific Ocean and Taiwan (by Taiwanese indigenous peoples). They are spoken b ...
spoken on the eastern north coast of
Papua province,
Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, ...
.
See also
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Sarmi languages Sarmi may refer to:
Places
* Sarmi, Nepal, a village in Nepal
* Sarmi, Indonesia, a town in Papua, Indonesia
* Sarmi Regency
Sarmi Regency is one of the regencies (''kabupaten'') in Papua Province of Indonesia. It was formed from the western d ...
for a comparison with related languages
References
Languages of Western New Guinea
Sarmi–Jayapura languages
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