Fasu language

Fasu
Region	New Guinea
Native speakers	unknown (1,200 cited 1981)[1] (750 Fasu, 300 Namuni, 150 Some)
Language family	Trans–New Guinea ? (West Kutubuan) Fasu
Dialects	Some Kaibu (Kaipu) Namome (Namumi, Namuni)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	faa
Glottolog	fasu1242[2]
Map: The Fasu language of New Guinea   The Fasu language   Other Trans–New Guinea languages   Other Papuan languages   Austronesian languages   Uninhabited

The Fasu language of New Guinea is not closely related to other languages, but forms a possible branch of the Trans–New Guinea (TNG) family. Wurm and Hattori (1981) considered its three principal dialects, Fasu, Some, and Namumi, to be three languages, which they called the West Kutubuan family, but Ethnologue (2009) considers it a single language. It is not close to the two East Kutubuan languages.

Although Fasu has proto-TNG vocabulary, Malcolm Ross considers its traditional inclusion in TNG to be somewhat questionable.

References

1. Fasu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Fasu". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

• Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". In Andrew Pawley, Robert Attenborough, Robin Hide, Jack Golson, eds. Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 15–66. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782.