Yau language (Trans–New Guinea)

Not to be confused with Yao languages or Yau language (Torricelli).

Yau, also called Uruwa, is one of the Finisterre languages of Papua New Guinea.

Yau
Uruwa
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Morobe Province
Native speakers	(2,400 cited 2000)[1]
Language family	Trans–New Guinea Finisterre–Huon Finisterre Uruwa Yau
Language codes
ISO 639-3	yuw
Glottolog	yaum1237

It is spoken in Boit, Boksawin, Komdaron, Kotet, Mitmit, Mup, Sapmanga, Sapurong, Sindamon, Sugan, Towet, Worin, and Yawan villages in Morobe Province.^[1] Southern dialects are called Nungon or Nuon, and are spoken by about 1,000 people in five or six villages in the Uruwa River valley.^[2]

External links

• Paradisec's open access collection of Selected Research Papers of Don Laycock on Languages in Papua New Guinea (DL2) includes materials on the Yau language