Dia language explained

Dia
Nativename:	Metru
States:	Papua New Guinea
Region:	Sandaun Province
Date:	2003
Ref:	e18
Familycolor:	Papuan
Fam1:	Torricelli
Fam2:	Wapei
Iso3:	dia
Glotto:	diaa1238
Glottorefname:	Alu-Sinagen

Dia is a Torricelli language of Papua New Guinea. Both Dia and the closely related Sinagen language go by the names Alu and Galu.

External links

• Paradisec holds an open access collection of Dia recordings, including lexical items, verb paradigms, stories, cry-singing and remarks.
• Paradisec also houses a collection of Arthur Capell's materials that include Dia (AC2), and notebooks from Don Laycock (DL2) that also. Both of these collections are open access.