Haruai

Facts

  • Language: Haruai
  • Alternate names: Harway, Taman, Waibuk, Wiyau, Wiyavik, Wiyaw, Wovan
  • Language code: tmd
  • Language family: Piawi (SIL classification)
  • Number of speakers: 100
  • Vulnerability: Endangered
  • Script: Latin script.

More information:

    Some similarities to Kalam languages due to borrowing (Comrie 1988). More loanwords from Kobon used in the northern area.

    Haruai is spoken in Papua New Guinea, Pacific.