Muyuw language
| Muyuw | |
|---|---|
| Region | Eastern New Guinea |
Native speakers | 6,000 (1998)[1] |
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Austronesian
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
myw |
| Glottolog |
muyu1244[2] |
Muyuw language (Egum, Murua, Murua Dukwayasi, Murua Kaulae, Muruwa, Muyu, Muyua, Muyuwa) is one of the Kilivila–Louisiades languages (of the Austronesian language family), spoken on the Woodlark Islands , in the Solomon Sea within Papua New Guinea.
Number of speakers: 6,000 (1998), of them 3,000 are monolinguals. Speakers also use Dobu, Kilivila or Misima-Paneati. Latin script is used.
Dialects included Yanaba, Lougaw (Gawa), Wamwan, Nawyem, Iwa. Iwa dialect is transitional between Muyuw and Kilivila. Lexical similarity 68% with Kilivila.
References
- ↑ Muyuw at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Muyuw". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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