Walio languages

Walio
Central Leonhard Schultze River
Geographic
distribution		 Sepik River basin, Papua New Guinea
Linguistic classification Sepik
  • Walio
Glottolog wali1264[1]

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.[2] They are frequently classified among the Sepik languages of northern Papua New Guinea, though Glottolog leaves them out.

References

  • Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". In Andrew Pawley; Robert Attenborough; Robin Hide; Jack Golson. Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 15&ndash, 66. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782.
  1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Walio". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. ↑ Walio languages at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)


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