Adjora language

Adjora
Adjoria, Azao
Abu
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionEast Sepik Province
Native speakers
4,200 (2000 census)[1]
Dialects
  • Abu, Auwa, Sabu
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3ado
Glottologabuu1241
ELPAbu
Map of the region where Adjora is spoken, according to Ethnologue data.

Adjora (Adjoria, Azao) a.k.a. Abu is a Ramu language of Papua New Guinea.

A supposed dialect, Auwa, apparently with few speakers, may be a distinct language. One confirmed dialect, however, is Sabu, which is spoken in the northeast of the language's region.

Location

Adjora is spoken in the Madang and East Sepik provinces of Papua New Guinea, specifically between Angoram, Ramu, and Sepik rivers and in the northwest of Madang. It is used in approximately 22 villages.[2]

Sociolinguistics

Many Adjora words have been borrowed by Tayap, a nearby language isolate that is spoken just to the west of the Adjora area.[3]: 350  It is also closely related to the Waran language (also known as Banaro).

Most of its 4,200 speakers are Abu (3,380), though there are 820 Savunese speakers.[2]

References

  1. ^ Adjora at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ a b Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2024). "Abu on Ethnologue: Languages of the World". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (27 ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Retrieved May 31, 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  3. ^ Kulick, Don; Terrill, Angela (2019). A Grammar and Dictionary of Tayap: The Life and Death of a Papuan Language. Pacific Linguistics 661. Boston/Berlin: Walter de Gruyter Inc. ISBN 9781501512209.


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