Walio languages
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| Walio | |
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| Geographic distribution: | Sepik River basin, Papua New Guinea |
| Linguistic classification: |
Sepik
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| Ethnologue code: | 17-2469 |
The Walio languages are a small family of clearly related languages, Walio, Pei, Yawiyo, and Tuwari, though they are not close: Walio and Yawiyo have only a 12% lexical similarity.[1] They are generally classified among the Sepik languages of northern Papua New Guinea.
References
- Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". In Andrew Pawley, Robert Attenborough, Robin Hide, Jack Golson, eds. Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 15–66. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782.
- ↑ Walio languages reference at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
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