Emem language

Emumu
Emem
Native to Indonesia
Region New Guinea
Native speakers
2,000 (2005)[1]
Pauwasi
  • Eastern

    • Emem–Karkar
      • Emumu
Language codes
ISO 639-3 enr
Glottolog emum1240[2]

Emumu, or Emem, is an Eastern Pauwasi language of West New Guinea. It has only 25% lexical similarity with Yafi, the other Eastern Pauwasi language.

References

  1. Emumu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Emumu". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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