Pyu language (Papuan)

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This article is about the Pyu language of Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea and Highland Papua, Indonesia and is not to be confused with the Piu language of Morobe Province or the extinct Pyu language of Myanmar.
Pyu
Native toPapua New Guinea
Indonesia
Region
Native speakers
250 (2012 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3pby
Glottologpyuu1245
ELPPyu
Approximate location where Pyu is spoken
Approximate location where Pyu is spoken
Pyu
Coordinates: 4°01′09″S 141°02′01″E / 4.019117°S 141.033561°E / -4.019117; 141.033561 (Biake 2)

Pyu is a

Pegunungan Bintang Regency, Highland Papua, Indonesia.[4][5]

Classification

Timothy Usher links the Pyu language to its neighbors, the Left May languages and the Amto–Musan languages, in as Arai–Samaia stock.[6]

An automated computational analysis (ASJP 4) by Müller et al. (2013)[7] found lexical similarities with Kimki. However, since the analysis was automatically generated, the grouping could be either due to mutual lexical borrowing or genetic inheritance.

Based on limited lexical evidence, Pyu had been linked to the putative Kwomtari–Fas family, but that family is apparently spurious and Foley (2018) notes that Pyu and Kwomtari are highly divergent from each other. Some similar pronouns are found in both Kwomtari and Pyu:[8]

pronoun Pyu Kwomtari
‘1PL, we’ məla mena
‘2SG, you (sg)’ no une
‘3, he/she/it/they’ na nane

Vocabulary

The following basic vocabulary words are from Conrad & Dye (1975)[9] and Voorhoeve (1975),[10] as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database:[11]

gloss Pyu
head uǏiʔ; wiri
hair Ǐɩsiʔ; lisi
ear kweɛ
eye bəmeʔ; pɛmɛʔɛ
nose tɛpʌǏi
tooth rəne
tongue asaguʔ
louse ni; niʔ
dog naguʔ; nakwu
pig we; wɛʔ
bird maǏuǏiʔ; maru
egg Ǐio taʔ; taʔ
blood ɛmiʔ; kami
bone bəli; bɩǏiʔ
skin kagole; kʌkʌǏɛʔ
breast ib̶iʔ
tree ga; ka
man tali; taliʔ
woman Ǐomæʔ
sun agwiʔ
water ʔiʔ; yi
fire kamie; kʌmæ
stone siri; sɩliʔ
road, path ʔonæ; ʔonɛ
eat waŋgɛʔ
one tefiye; tɛᵽiɛʔ
two kasi

References

  1. ^ Pyu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. SIL International. Archived
    from the original on 2019-06-03. Retrieved 2019-06-07.
  3. ^ United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9. Archived from the original on 2019-06-05. Retrieved 2019-06-07.
  4. OCLC 913647590
    .
  5. ^ Szilzer, Peter J.; Clouse, Helja Heikkinen (1991). Index of Irian Jaya languages :a special publication of Irian :Peter J. Silzer, Helja Heikkinen Clouse (in Indonesian). SIL and University of Cenderawasih. Retrieved 2024-10-25.
  6. ^ "NewGuineaWorld, Arai and Samaia Rivers". Retrieved 2017-12-09.
  7. ^ Müller, André, Viveka Velupillai, Søren Wichmann, Cecil H. Brown, Eric W. Holman, Sebastian Sauppe, Pamela Brown, Harald Hammarström, Oleg Belyaev, Johann-Mattis List, Dik Bakker, Dmitri Egorov, Matthias Urban, Robert Mailhammer, Matthew S. Dryer, Evgenia Korovina, David Beck, Helen Geyer, Pattie Epps, Anthony Grant, and Pilar Valenzuela. 2013. ASJP World Language Trees of Lexical Similarity: Version 4 (October 2013) Archived 2022-03-28 at the Wayback Machine.
  8. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7
    .
  9. doi:10.15144/PL-A40.1. Archived
    from the original on 2024-05-26. Retrieved 2024-05-26.
  10. doi:10.15144/PL-B31
  11. ^ Greenhill, Simon (2016). "TransNewGuinea.org - database of the languages of New Guinea". Archived from the original on 2021-05-14. Retrieved 2020-11-05.
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