Pisa language

Pisa, also known as West Awyu and Asuwe Awyu, is an Awyu language of Papua, Indonesia. It may actually be three languages, depending on one's criteria for a 'language':[3]

  • West Awyu
    • Wildeman River Awyu (Pisà)
    • Asue River Awyu
      • Miaro River Awyu
      • Kewet River Awyu
Pisa
Asuwe Awyu
West Awyu
RegionPapua, Indonesia
Native speakers
6,500 (2002)[1]
Dialects
  • Pisà
  • Asuwe
  • Miaro
Language codes
ISO 639-3psa
Glottologasue1235[2]

References
  1. Pisa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Asue Awyu". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. New Guinea World - Awyu
  • Shiaxa at the Awyu–Ndumut research group at VU University Amsterdam:


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