Hember Avu language

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Hember Avu
Aregerek
Musar
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Madang Province
Native speakers
1,500 (2000) [1]
Trans–New Guinea?
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mmi
Glottolog musa1265

Hember Avu, also Aregerek and Musar, is a Papuan language of Sumgilbar Rural LLG, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. [2]

Distribution

Hember Avu is spoken in seven villages: [2]

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References

  1. Hember Avu at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed Access logo transparent.svg
  2. 1 2 Pick, Andrew (2020). A reconstruction of Proto-Northern Adelbert phonology and lexicon (PDF) (PhD dissertation). University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.