Pyu language (Papuan)
Pyu is a language isolate spoken in Papua New Guinea. As of 2000, the language had about 100 speakers. It is spoken in Biake No. 2 village (4.019117°S 141.033561°E) of Biake ward, Green River Rural LLG in Sandaun Province.[3][4]
| Pyu | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Green River Rural LLG in Sandaun Province, near Indonesian border |
Native speakers | 100 (2000 census)[1] |
Arai–Samaia
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | pby |
| Glottolog | pyuu1245[2] |
| Coordinates: 4.019117°S 141.033561°E | |
Classification
Timothy Usher links the Pyu language to its neighbors, the Left May languages and the Amto–Musan languages, in as Arai–Samaia stock.[5]
Based on limited lexical evidence, Pyu had been linked to the putative Kwomtari–Fas family, but that family is apparently spurious and Foley (2018) notes that Pyu and Kwomtari are highly divergent from each other. Some similar pronoun found in both Kwomtari and Pyu:[6]
pronoun Pyu Kwomtari ‘1PL, we’ məla mena ‘2SG, you (sg)’ no une ‘3, he/she/it/they’ na nane
gollark: I think only city centres probably will in practice.
gollark: A cool but also still impractical alternative to batteries for solar would just be to have a giant ring of solar panels around the planet, linked with superconductors.
gollark: (or nuclear if people weren't irrationally scared of it)
gollark: You would be able to drop the batteries, and drive with unlimited range as long as there was a satellite available to point at you.
gollark: It might also cook the passenger, but that's a small price to pay for PROGRESS!
References
- Pyu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Pyu". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Papua New Guinea languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
- United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
- NewGuineaWorld, Arai and Samaia Rivers
- Foley, William A. (2018). "The Languages of the Sepik-Ramu Basin and Environs". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 197–432. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.
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