Awyu languages explained

Awyu
Region:	Digul watershed, New Guinea
Familycolor:	Papuan
Fam1:	Trans–New Guinea
Fam2:	Central West New Guinea
Fam3:	Awyu–Ok
Fam4:	Digul River (Greater Awyu)
Glotto:	awyu1264
Glottorefname:	Awyu

The Awyu languages are a cluster of Papuan languages in Indonesian New Guinea.

They number between five (bold below) and eleven, depending on one's criteria for a 'language':^[1]

• South Awyu
  • Bamgi River Awyu (Oser, Jénimu/Yenimu)
  • Ia River Awyu (Sjìagha/Shiaxa)
• Southeast Awyu (Jair)
  • Edera River Awyu
  • Lower Kia River Awyu
  • Upper Kia River Awyu
• Central and West Awyu
  • North Awyu
  • Central Awyu
    • Mappi River Awyu (Aghu)
    • Pasue River Awyu
  • West Awyu
    • Wildeman River Awyu (Pisà)
    • Asue River Awyu
      • Miaro River Awyu
      • Kewet River Awyu

(The placement and diversity of North Awyu is uncertain, due to lack of data.)

Further reading

• Lebold, Randy, Ronald Kriens and Yunita Susanto. 2013. A Report on the Bamgi, Kia, and Lower Digul River Language Survey in Papua, Indonesia. SIL International.
• Susanto, Yunita. 2004. Report on the Mapi River Survey South Coast of Irian Jaya. SIL International.

External links

• Shiaxa at the Awyu–Ndumut research group at VU University Amsterdam: http://www2.let.vu.nl/oz/awyu-ndumut/shiaxa.php

Notes and References

1. Web site: New Guinea World - Awyu . 2020-03-31 . 2020-02-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200212134050/https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/families/trans-new-guinea/central-west-new-guinea/digul-river-ok/digul-river/central-digul-river/awyu . dead .