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Siawi language

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Siawi
Musian
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionSandaun Province
Native speakers
220 (2007)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3mmp
Glottologsiaw1243
ELPSiawi

Siawi (also known as Musian, Musa) is an Amto–Musan language. It is spoken in Sandaun Province of Papua New Guinea in the Amanab and Rocky Peak Districts, south of the Upper Sepik River, toward the headwaters of the Left May River on the Samaia River east of Amto.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ Siawi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.