Yau language (Trans–New Guinea)

Not to be confused with Yao languages or Yau language (Torricelli).
Yau
Uruwa
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionMorobe Province
Native speakers
2,400 (2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3yuw
Glottologyaum1237

Yau, also called Uruwa, is one of the Finisterre languages of Papua New Guinea.

It is spoken in Boit, Boksawin, Komdaron, Kotet, Mitmit, Mup, Sapmanga, Sapurong, Sindamon, Sugan, Towet, Worin, and Yawan villages in Morobe Province.[1] Southern dialects are called Nungon or Nuon, and are spoken by about 1,000 people in five or six villages in the Uruwa River valley.[2]

  • Paradisec's open access collection of Selected Research Papers of Don Laycock on Languages in Papua New Guinea (DL2) includes materials on the Yau language

References

  1. ^ a b Yau at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Sarvasy, Hannah; Ögate, Eni (2019). Sherris, Ari; Peyton, Joy Kreeft (eds.). Early Writing in Nungon in Papua New Guinea. New York: Routledge. pp. 186–187.


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