Aghu language

This article is about the Papuan language. For the Australian language, see Aghu Tharrnggala (linguistics).

Aghu
Jair
Spoken in	Papua, Indonesia
Native speakers	15,000  (1987–2002)
Language family	Trans–New Guinea Central and South New Guinea Awyu–Dumut Awyu Aghu
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously: ahh – Aghu awu – Jair yir – North Awyu

Aghu, also known as Awyu or Djair (Dyair, Jair, Yair), is a Papuan language of Papua, Indonesia.

Ethnologue assigns separate ISO codes for Aghu/Jair, Jair, North Awyu/Jair, and Central Awyu. However, these have not been attested as separate languages (U. Amsterdam), and it is not clear that all correspond to Aghu.

Bibliography

• (Dutch) Drabbe, P. (1957). Spraakkunst van het Aghu-dialect van de Awju-taal. Den Haag: M. Nijhoff. 
• (English) Voorhoeve, C. L. (1980) [1975]. Languages of Irian Jaya, Checklist: Preliminary Classification, Language Maps, Wordlists. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 28, 98. http://www.papuaweb.org/dlib/bk/pl/B31/_toc.html. 

External links

• Aghu at the Awyu–Ndumut research group at VU University Amsterdam: [1]