Social:Eastern Pauwasi languages

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Short description: Papuan language family
Eastern Pauwasi
Geographic
distribution
Western New Guinea, Papua New Guinea
Linguistic classificationPauwasi or independent language family
Subdivisions
  • Yafi
  • Emumu
  • Karkar
Glottologeast2530[1]

The Eastern Pauwasi languages are a family of Papuan languages spoken in north-central New Guinea, on both sides of the Indonesia-Papua New Guinea border. They may either form part of a larger Pauwasi language family along with the Western Pauwasi languages, or it they could form an independent language family.[2]

Languages are:

Yafi (Zorop), Emumu (Emem)–Karkar-Yuri

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Eastern Pauwasi". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/east2530. 
  2. Foley, William A. (2018). "The Languages of the Sepik-Ramu Basin and Environs". in Palmer, Bill. The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 197-432. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7. 

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