Wayu language

This article is about the language spoken in Nepal; for the language of South America, see Wayuu language.

Wayu
Spoken in	Janakpur Zone, Nepal
Native speakers	1,740 (2001 census)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan (Tibeto-Burman) Mahakiranti Kiranti Western Sunwari Wayu
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`vay`

Wayu, Vayu, or Hayu is a language spoken by about 1740 people in the Janakpur Zone of Nepal.

According to Van Driem (2001), Shafer mistakenly classified Wayu as a Chepang language, and this has carried through to Ethnologue.

References

George van Driem (2001) Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region. Brill.