Yaur language

Yaur
	Jaur
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Irian Jaya
Native speakers	(350 cited 1978)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian Eastern Malayo-Polynesian South Halmahera–West New Guinea Cenderawasih Bay Yaur; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	jau
Glottolog	yaur1239[2]
	Yaur
	Coordinates: 3.33°S 134.88°E

Yaur or Jaur is a language in the putative Cenderawasih (Geelvink Bay) branch of the Austronesian family spoken in Papua province, Western New Guinea. It has about 300 speakers.

References

Yaur at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Yaur". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Moseley, Christopher and R. E. Asher, ed. Atlas of World Languages (New York: Routledge, 1994) p. 111

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