Walio languages
Sepik language family of Papua New Guinea
The Walio languages are a small family of clearly related languages,
| Walio | |
|---|---|
| Central Leonhard Schultze River | |
| Geographic distribution | Sepik River basin, Papua New Guinea |
| Linguistic classification | Sepik
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| Subdivisions | |
| Language codes | |
| Glottolog | wali1264 |
However, they are not close: Walio and Yawiyo have only a 12% lexical similarity.[1] 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
- ^ Walio languages at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
- 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.