Walio languages

Walio
Central Leonhard Schultze River
Geographic distribution	Sepik River basin, Papua New Guinea
Linguistic classification	Sepik Leonhard Schultze Walio
Subdivisions	Walio Pei Yawiyo Tuwari
Language codes
Glottolog	wali1264

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

1. Walio languages at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)

• Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". In Andrew Pawley; Robert Attenborough; Robin Hide; Jack Golson (eds.). Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 15–66. doi:10.15144/PL-572. ISBN   0858835622. OCLC   67292782.