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 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 putative Cenderawasih (Geelvink Bay) branch of the Austronesian family spoken in Nabire Regency, Central Papua, Indonesia. It has about 300 speakers.

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