Pyu
Classificação: Isolate
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Classificação: Isolate
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As informações estão incompletas “Language isolates in the New Guinea region” . Harald Hammarström (2017) , Lyle Campbell, Thomas Dougherty, and Alexander D. Smith · London: Routledge
"According to a 1992 report by Arjen Lock ... 'The children are claimed to lack fluency in both Abau and [Pyu]. They prefer to communicate in Tok Pisin.'"
Abau; Tok Pisin
"According to a 1992 report by Arjen Lock, 'people who are over 30 years and older are bilingual in Abau and [Pyu].'"
"spoken... in two villages, Biake 2 with its hamlets (north of the Sepik River and just east of the PNG-Indonesian border) and an unlocated village on the bend of the Sepik within Indonesian territory."
As informações estão incompletas “The status of the least documented language families in the world” (177-212) . Hammarström, Harald (2010)
Children prefer to communicate in Tok Pisin and lack fluency in Pyu.
Abau
Tok Pisin
Everyone over 30 speaks is bilingual in Abau. Younger generations are not fluent in Pyu or Abau, but prefer Tok Pisin.
The language is spoken only in the village of Biake 2 within its hamlets (north of the Sepik River and just east of the PNG-Indonesia border), and in an unlocated village on the bend of the Sepik within Indonesian territory.
As informações estão incompletas “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 18th Edition” . Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig · SIL International
"Sandaun Province, October river, Biake No. 2 village. East of Papua, Indonesia border."
As informações estão incompletas “Sepik languages: checklist and preliminary classification” . Laycock, Donald C. (1973) , Wurm, Stephen A. · Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, Department of Linguistics
Biake No. 2, Peliapu, and Yibu villages, "plus other unknown villages."
"The village of Biake No. 2 is apparently bilingual in Pyu and Abau; other villages speaking Pyu are apparently located further up the Biake River, in West Irian [Papua Province, Indonesia]."