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Name:
Iau
Alternate Names:
Foi; Urundi; Ururi; Yau; Turu; Iaw
Spoken in:
Indonesia
Number of speakers:
600 (2000 SIL), increasing. 500 monolinguals. Ethnic population: 600 or more
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
600
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
tmu
Code Authority:
ISO 639-3
Code Standard:
SIL
Families:
Lakes Plain (Geelvink Bay), East Geelvink Bay
Parent Subgroup:
Central Tariku (ctar)
Child Dialects:
Turu; Yawa (tmu-tur)
Iau (tmu-iau)
Foi (tmu-foi)
Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Vulnerable
Endangerment Status
Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Vulnerable
Map of Iau
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