Walio languages

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Walio
Central Leonhard Schultze River
Geographic
distribution
Sepik River basin, Papua New Guinea
Linguistic classificationSepik
Subdivisions
Language codes
Glottologwali1264
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The Walio languages are a small family of clearly related languages,

Walio, Pei, Yawiyo, and Tuwari.

However, they are not close: Walio and Yawiyo have only a 12% lexical similarity.[1] They are frequently classified among the Sepik languages of northern Papua New Guinea, though Glottolog leaves them out. Glottolog 3.4 classifies the Walio languages as an independent language family.

References

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  1. ^ Walio languages at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009) Closed access icon
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