Sawai language

Sawai
Weda
Native toIndonesia
RegionNorth Maluku province
Native speakers
(12,000 cited 2000)
Dialects
  • Weda
  • Sawai
  • Kobe
  • Faya-Mafa
  • Messa-Dote
Language codes
ISO 639-3szw
Glottologsawa1247

The Sawai language (also Weda) is a South Halmahera language of the Austronesian language family spoken in the Weda and Gane Timor districts of southern Halmahera, northern Maluku Province, Indonesia. There are approximately 12,000 speakers.