Yaur language

Yaur
Jaur
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Central Papua
Ethnicity	Yaur
Native speakers	(350 cited 1978)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian Eastern Malayo-Polynesian South Halmahera–West New Guinea Cenderawasih Bay Southwestern Yaur-Yerisiam Yaur
Language codes
ISO 639-3	jau
Glottolog	yaur1239
Yaur
Coordinates: 3.33°S 134.88°E / -3.33; 134.88

Yaur or Jaur is a language in the Cenderawasih (Geelvink Bay) branch of the Austronesian family spoken in Nabire Regency, Central Papua, Indonesia. It has about 300 speakers. It is closely related to Yerisiam and more distantly to Umar.

See also

• Yaur people

References

1. Yaur at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

• Moseley, Christopher and R. E. Asher, ed. Atlas of World Languages (New York: Routledge, 1994) p. 111