Emem language

Emem
	Emumu
Native to	Indonesia
Region	New Guinea
Native speakers	2,000 (2005)[1]
Language family	Pauwasi East Pauwasi Emem–Karkar Emem; ; ;
Dialects	North Emem; South Emem;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	enr
Glottolog	emum1240[2]

Emem, or Emumu, is an Eastern Pauwasi language of West New Guinea. It has only 25% lexical similarity with Zorop, the most distinct Eastern Pauwasi language. North Emem and South Emem are quite distinct. North Emem is transitional into Zorop, and South Emem into Karkar.

References

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

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

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