Dobu language

Dobu
Dobu
Dobuan
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Milne Bay Province, tip of Cape Vogel
Native speakers	(10,000 cited 1998); 60% monolingual; L2 speakers: 51,000 (2021)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Oceanic Papuan Tip Nuclear Papuan Tip North Papuan Mainland – D'Entrecasteaux Dobu–Duau Dobu; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Latin script (Dobuan alphabet); Dobuan Braille
Language codes
ISO 639-3	dob
Glottolog	dobu1241

Dobu or Dobuan is an Austronesian language spoken in Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. It is a lingua franca for 100,000 people in D'Entrecasteaux Islands.

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