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Walio languages

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Linguistic classification
  
Sepik Walio

Glottolog
  
wali1264

Geographic distribution
  
Sepik River basin, Papua New Guinea

The Walio languages are a small family of clearly related languages, Walio, Pei, Yawiyo, and Tuwari, though they are not close: Walio and Yawiyo have only a 12% lexical similarity. They are frequently classified among the Sepik languages of northern Papua New Guinea, though Glottolog leaves them out.

References

Walio languages Wikipedia