Pyu language (Papuan)
Introduction '''Pyu''' is a language isolate spoken in Papua New Guinea. As of 2000, the language had about 100 speakers. It is spoken in Biake No. 2 village () of Biake ward, Green River Rural LLG in Sandaun Province.
Classification Timothy Usher links the Pyu language to its neighbors, the Left May languages and the Amto–Musan languages, in as Arai–Samaia stock.An automated computational analysis (ASJP 4) by Müller et al. (2013) found lexical similarities with Kimki. However, since the analysis was automatically generated, the grouping could be either due to mutual lexical borrowing or genetic inheritance.Based on limited lexical evidence, Pyu had been linked to the putative Kwomtari–Fas family, but that family is apparently spurious and Foley (2018) notes that Pyu and Kwomtari are highly divergent from each other. Some similar pronoun found in both Kwomtari and Pyu:: pronoun  Pyu  Kwomtari ‘1, we’  məla  mena ‘2, you (sg)’  no  une ‘3, he/she/it/they’  na  nane
Vocabulary The following basic vocabulary words are from Conrad & Dye (1975) and Voorhoeve (1975), as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database:: gloss  Pyu head uǏiʔ; wiri hair Ǐɩsiʔ; lisi ear kweɛ eye bəmeʔ; pɛmɛʔɛ nose tɛpʌǏi tooth rəne tongue asaguʔ louse ni; niʔ dog naguʔ; nakwu pig we; wɛʔ bird maǏuǏiʔ; maru egg Ǐio taʔ; taʔ blood ɛmiʔ; kami bone bəli; bɩǏiʔ skin kagole; kʌkʌǏɛʔ breast ib̶iʔ tree ga; ka man tali; taliʔ woman Ǐomæʔ sun agwiʔ water ʔiʔ; yi fire kamie; kʌmæ stone siri; sɩliʔ road, path ʔonæ; ʔonɛ eat waŋgɛʔ one tefiye; tɛᵽiɛʔ two kasi
References
External links * Pyu language word list at TransNewGuinea.org