Awtuw language
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Awtuw also known as Kamnum, is spoken in Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea
. It is a polysynthetic language
closely related to Karawa and Pouye
.
It is an endangered language
, being widely replaced by Tok Pisin
.
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands...
. It is a polysynthetic language
Polysynthetic language
In linguistic typology, polysynthetic languages are highly synthetic languages, i.e., languages in which words are composed of many morphemes. Whereas isolating languages have a low morpheme-to-word ratio, polysynthetic languages have extremely high morpheme-to-word ratios.Not all languages can be...
closely related to Karawa and Pouye
Pouye language
Pouye is a language spoken in Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea, by a thousand people, and growing....
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It is an endangered language
Endangered language
An endangered language is a language that is at risk of falling out of use. If it loses all its native speakers, it becomes a dead language. If eventually no one speaks the language at all it becomes an "extinct language"....
, being widely replaced by Tok Pisin
Tok Pisin
Tok Pisin is a creole spoken throughout Papua New Guinea. It is an official language of Papua New Guinea and the most widely used language in that country...
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