Greater Awyu languages

The Greater Awyu or Digul River languages, known in earlier classifications with more limited scope as Awyu–Dumut (Awyu–Ndumut), are a family of perhaps a dozen Trans–New Guinea languages spoken in eastern West Papua in the region of the Digul River. Six of the languages are sufficiently attested for a basic description; it is not clear how many of the additional names (in parentheses below) may be separate languages.

Greater Awyu
Digul River
Geographic
distribution		Digul watershed, New Guinea
Linguistic classificationTrans–New Guinea
Proto-languageProto-Digul River
Subdivisions
  • Awyu–Dumut
  • Becking–Dawi
  • Sawi
Glottologgrea1275
Map: The Awyu–Dumut languages of New Guinea
  The Awyu–Dumut languages (other languages not shown)
  Other Trans–New Guinea languages
  Other Papuan languages
  Austronesian languages
  Uninhabited
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