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Sanio
Western Sepik Hill
Geographic
distribution
Sepik River basin, Papua New Guinea
Linguistic classificationSepik
Glottologwest2576

The Sanio languages are a small family of clearly related languages,

Sanio, Niksek (Paka, Gabiano), Piame, Bikaru, and Hewa.

They are generally classified among the Sepik Hill languages of the Sepik family of northern Papua New Guinea.

Footnotes

References

  • Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". In Andrew Pawley; Robert Attenborough; Robin Hide; Jack Golson (eds.). Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 15–66. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782.