Pyu language (Papua New Guinea)
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Pyu is a language isolate
spoken in Papua New Guinea
. It has been suggested that Pyu belongs to the Kwomtari–Baibai family, but the evidence is poor. (See Kwomtari–Baibai.) As of 2000, the language had about 100 speakers.
Language isolate
A language isolate, in the absolute sense, is a natural language with no demonstrable genealogical relationship with other languages; that is, one that has not been demonstrated to descend from an ancestor common with any other language. They are in effect language families consisting of a single...
spoken in Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands...
. It has been suggested that Pyu belongs to the Kwomtari–Baibai family, but the evidence is poor. (See Kwomtari–Baibai.) As of 2000, the language had about 100 speakers.