Pouye

BYE

developing

Alternate Names: Bouye

Dialects: None known. Lexical similarity: 67% with Karawa ,.

Genealogy:

Sepik
Ram

Demographics: 960 (2003 SIL), increasing.

Language Use: Vigorous. All domains. All ages. Men, boys and a few women also use Tok Pisin [tpi].

Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: 5%. Literacy rate in L2: 15%–20% (Tok Pisin). Bible portions: 1995–2007.

Typology: SOV.

Writing System: Latin

Nation of Origin: Papua New Guinea

Other Comments: Christian, traditional religion.