Alternate Names: Edawapi, Lujere, Namie, Nemia, Yellow River
Dialects: None known. Reportedly most similar to Ak , and Awun ,. Lexical similarity: 13% with Abau ,, 12% with May River Iwam ,.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 6,000 (2007 SIL), increasing. 300 monolinguals. Ethnic population: 6,200.
Language Use: Vigorous. Home, prep schools. All ages. Positive attitudes. 5,500 also use Tok Pisin [tpi]. Also use English [eng].
Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: 5%–15%. Literacy rate in L2: 50%–75% in Tok Pisin. 4 government vernacular primary schools. Grammar. Bible portions: 1996–2009.
Typology: SOV; postpositions; consonant clusters; vowel glides; 6 phonemic vowels.
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: Papua New Guinea