Yapen languages (Austronesian) should not be confused with Yapen languages (Papuan).
Yapen | |
Region: | Yapen Island, Western New Guinea, Indonesia |
Familycolor: | Austronesian |
Fam2: | Malayo-Polynesian |
Fam3: | Central–Eastern |
Fam4: | South Halmahera–West New Guinea |
Fam5: | Cenderawasih Bay |
Fam6: | Yapen–Waropen |
Glotto: | yape1249 |
Glottorefname: | Yapen |
Map: | Yapen-languages.png |
The Yapen languages are the branch of Malayo-Polynesian languages spoken on Yapen Island and the nearby isle of Cenderawasih Bay, both in Papua province of northeastern Indonesia.
They share Yapen Ιsland with the Papuan Yawa languages.