Amto Musan languages
| Amto-Musan | ||
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Spoken in |
Papua New Guinea | |
| speaker | 270 (native speaker, as of 2000) | |
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| Official language in | nowhere | |
| Coordinates: 4 ° 0 ′ S , 141 ° 20 ′ E |
Amto-Musan is one of the Papuan languages belonging to language family in Papua New Guinea , which is unrelated to any other language family. It consists of the two languages Amto (Ki) and Musan (Siawi) , both of which are spoken in the province of Sandaun (formerly West Sepik ).
Both languages are highly endangered languages , Amto is spoken in only two villages (200 people, as of 2000), Musan / Siawi by 70 speakers.
The language area covers only a small mountain region of about 30 km, in the northern mountain country of the West Range , south of the upper Sepik , between May River and Idam . The western valley speaks Amto, the Musan are to be found in the east of the mountains. Abau is spoken to the north of the Upper Sepik and to the west of the Idam . To the east of the Sepik, which swings around the mountain region, the Sepik-Ramu languages predominate, with the Amto-Musan forming a linguistic island. The Left May languages neighboring in the southeast also form a completely independent language island with only a few hundred speakers.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information according to map in dataset . Upper Sepik-Central New Guinea Project and Papua New Guinea, Map 5 . ethnologue .com