Woi Language

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Woi is a Malayo-Polynesian language of Papua, Indonesia. The Malayo-Polynesian languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages, with approximately 351 million speakers. These are widely dispersed throughout the island nations of Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean, with a smaller number in continental Asia. Malagasy is a geographic outlier, spoken in the island of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. A characteristic of the Malayo-Polynesian languages is a tendency to use reduplication (repetition of all or part of a word, such as wiki-wiki) to express the plural, and like other Austronesian languages they have simple phonologies; thus a text has few but frequent sounds. The majority also lack consonant clusters (e.g., [str] or [mpt] in English). Most also have only a small set of vowels, five being a common number.