Walio languages explained

Walio
Also Known As:Central Leonhard Schultze River
Region:Sepik River basin, Papua New Guinea
Familycolor:Papuan
Fam1:Sepik
Fam2:Leonhard Schultze
Child1:Walio
Child2:Pei
Child3:Yawiyo
Child4:Tuwari
Glotto:wali1264
Glottorefname:Walioic

The Walio languages are a small family of clearly related languages,

Walio, Pei, Yawiyo, and Tuwari.

However, they are not close: Walio and Yawiyo have only a 12% lexical similarity. They are frequently classified among the Sepik languages of northern Papua New Guinea, though Glottolog leaves them out. Glottolog 3.4 classifies the Walio languages as an independent language family.