Yaur language

Yaur or Jaur is a language in the putative Cenderawasih (Geelvink Bay) branch of the Austronesian family spoken in Papua province, Western New Guinea. It has about 300 speakers.

Yaur
Jaur
Native toIndonesia
RegionIrian Jaya
Native speakers
(350 cited 1978)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3jau
Glottologyaur1239[2]
Yaur
Coordinates: 3.33°S 134.88°E / -3.33; 134.88

References

  1. Yaur at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Yaur". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  • Moseley, Christopher and R. E. Asher, ed. Atlas of World Languages (New York: Routledge, 1994) p. 111
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