Dia language

"Alu-Sinagen language" redirects here. For Sinagen, see Sinagen language.

Dia
Metru
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Sandaun Province
Native speakers	1,800 (2003) [1]
Language family	Torricelli Wapei Dia
Language codes
ISO 639-3	dia
Glottolog	diaa1238
ELP	Alu

Dia is a Torricelli language of Papua New Guinea.

History

Both Dia and the closely related Sinagen language go by the names Alu and Galu.

References

1. Dia at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

External links

• Paradisec holds an open access collection of Dia recordings, including lexical items, verb paradigms, stories, cry-singing and remarks.
• Paradisec also houses a collection of Arthur Capell's materials that include Dia (AC2), and notebooks from Don Laycock (DL2) that also. Both of these collections are open access.