Amto language

Amto
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Sandaun Province
Native speakers
300 (2006)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 amt
Glottolog amto1250[2]

Amto (also known as Ki) is an Amto–Musan language spoken in Sandaun Province of Papua New Guinea in the Amanab and Rocky Peak Districts, south of the Upper Sepik River, toward the headwaters of the Left May River on the Samaia River. There are two villages, Amto and Habiyon.[3]

Notes

  1. Amto at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Amto". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.


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