Siawi language
| Siawi | |
|---|---|
| Musian | |
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Sandaun Province |
Native speakers | 220 (2007)[1] |
|
Amto–Musan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
mmp |
| Glottolog |
siaw1243[2] |
Siawi (also known as Musian, Musa) is an Amto–Musan language. It is spoken in Sandaun Province of Papua New Guinea in the Amanab and Rocky Peak Districts, south of the Upper Sepik River, toward the headwaters of the Left May River on the Samaia River east of Amto.[3]
Notes
- ↑ Siawi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Siawi". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.