The Awyu languages are a cluster of Papuan languages of the Digul River, or Greater Awyu, group within the Awyu-Ok branch of the Trans-New Guinea family, spoken in the Digul watershed of Indonesian New Guinea. Depending on the criteria used to distinguish a language from a dialect, the cluster is described as comprising between five and eleven languages, with South Awyu, Southeast Awyu, North Awyu, Central Awyu and West Awyu as its main groupings.
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1. Glottolog: Awyu (languoid record)
GlottologLanguoid record: child_language_count
"child_language_count": 7
Languoid record: level and category
"level": "family", "bookkeeping": false, "category": "Family"
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