Yau language

Yau
	Uruwa
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Morobe Province
Native speakers	(1,700 cited 1991)[1]
Language family	Trans–New Guinea Finisterre–Huon Finisterre Uruwa Yau; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	yuw
Glottolog	yaum1237[2]

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

It is spoken in Boit, Boksawin, Komdaron, Kotet, Mitmit, Mup, Sapmanga, Sapurong, Sindamon, Sugan, Towet, Worin, and Yawan villages in Morobe Province.[3]

External links

Paradisec's open access collection of Selected Research Papers of Don Laycock on Languages in Papua New Guinea (DL2) includes materials on the Yau language

References

Yau at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Yau (Morobe Province)". 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.

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[e18-1] Yau at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Yau (Morobe Province)". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[Ethnologue22-PNG-3] 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.