As is an Austronesian language spoken in the village of Asbaken, on the north coast of the Doberai Peninsula, on the Indonesian portion of the island of New Guinea.[1] It was possibly originally spoken on Gag Island.[2]

In 1987, Berry & Berry found approximately 300 speakers of As, but by 2020, Arnold found only six speakers, all elderly. The language is considered moribund as a result, though there is some interest among younger people in documenting the language before it is fully extinct.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Arnold, Laura (2020-07-31). "Four undocumented languages of Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia". Language Documentation and Description. 17. doi:10.25894/ldd95. ISSN 2756-1224.
  2. ↑ Berry, Keith; Berry, Christine (1987). "A survey of some West Papuan phylum languages". Workpapers in Indonesian Languages and Cultures. 4: 25–80.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_language