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ALSO KNOWN AS		Sawos
CLASSIFICATION		Sepik, Ndu
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		bry
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS		Burui is included within Laycock's (1973) "Sawos language", which he admits may consist of multiple languages, noting that "no real dialect surveys have been undertaken". The classifications here follow the survey work of Staalsen (1975).

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: "East Sepik Province, Ambunti district, Sepik plains south of Maprik, Burui village, north of Pagwi."

	70	1975	The Languages of the Sawos Region (New Guinea)	6-16			Anthropos				Staalsen, Philip		~150	1972	100-999	Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	Papua New Guinea	East Sepik Province, Sawos region: two Burui villages
		2014	Glottolog 2.3						Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology	http://glottolog.org	Hammarström, Harald & Forkel, Robert & Haspelmath, Martin & Nordhoff, Sebastian	Hammarström, Harald & Forkel, Robert & Haspelmath, Martin & Nordhoff, Sebastian. 2014. Glottolog 2.3. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at http://glottolog.org)							-4.04, 143.01
18th		2015	Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 18th Edition		Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig	SIL International		Dallas, Texas		http://www.ethnologue.com		Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). 2015. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Eighteenth edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com.	260	2000	100-999	Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	Papua New Guinea	"East Sepik Province, Ambunti district, Sepik plains south of Maprik, Burui village, north of Pagwi."

Burui