Yau language

Not to be confused with Yao languages or Yau language (Torricelli).
Yau
Uruwa
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Morobe Province
Native speakers
(1,700 cited 1991)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 yuw
Glottolog yaum1237[2]

Yau, also called Uruwa, is one of the Finisterre languages of Papua New Guinea.

References

  1. Yau at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Yau (Morobe Province)". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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