Siawi language

Siawi
Musian
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Sandaun Province
Native speakers
220 (2007)[1]
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

  1. Siawi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Siawi". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.


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