Siawi language

Siawi language
Siawi
Musian
Spoken in Papua New Guinea
Region Sandaun Province
Native speakers 70  (2000)
Language family
Amto–Musan
  • Siawi
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mmp

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.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

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