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Sahu language

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Native to
  
Native speakers
  
(7,500 cited 1987)

Region
  
Language family
  
West PapuanHalmaheraSahu languagesSahu

ISO 639-3
  
Either:saj – Sahuibu – Ibu

Glottolog
  
sahu1245  (Sahu)ibuu1240  (Ibu)

Sahu (Sa’u, Sahu’u, Sau) is a Papuan Halmahera language. Use is vigorous; dialects are Pa’disua (Palisua), Tala’i, Waioli, and Gamkanora. A fifth dialect, Ibu, used to be spoken near the mouth of the Ibu River.

References

Sahu language Wikipedia


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