Native to Papua New Guinea Native speakers 140 (2000) ISO 639-3 seo | Region Sandaun Province Language family Sepik?
Papi?
Suarmin Glottolog suar1238 | |
Suarmin, or Asabano, is a Sepik language spoken in Sandaun Province, Papua-New Guinea. Alternative names are Akiapmin, Duranmin. Glottolog leaves it unclassified:
Typological arguments are not sufficient to conclude a Leonard Schultze family with Walio. Neither is the shared animate-suffix with Walio conclusive of a genetic relation. The lexical evidence does not show any conclusive genetic relationship either, be it inside or outside Leon[h]ard Schultze, or with Papi (a higher figure (29%) of Papi–Duranmin lexicostatistical relations ... is superseded by later, below 10%, figures...).References
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