Adjora language

Adjora (Adjoria, Azao) a.k.a. Abu is a Ramu language of Papua New Guinea.

Adjora
Abu
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionEast Sepik Province
Native speakers
4,200 (2000 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3ado
Glottologabuu1241
ELPAbu

A supposed dialect, Auwa, apparently with few speakers, may be a distinct language.

Sociolinguistics

Many Adjora words have been borrowed by Tayap, a nearby language isolate that is spoken just to the west of the Adjora area.[2]:350

References

  1. Adjora at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Kulick, Don; Terrill, Angela (2019). A Grammar and Dictionary of Tayap: The Life and Death of a Papuan Language. Pacific Linguistics 661. Boston/Berlin: Walter de Gruyter Inc. ISBN 9781501512209.



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