Social:Walio languages
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| Walio | |
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| Central Leonhard Schultze River | |
| Geographic distribution | Sepik River basin, Papua New Guinea |
| Linguistic classification | Sepik?
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| Glottolog | wali1264[1] |
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.[2] 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.
References
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Walioic". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/wali1264.
- ↑ Walio languages at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
- Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". in Andrew Pawley. Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 15–66. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782.
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