Sahu language

Sahu
Native to Indonesia
Region Halmahera
Native speakers
unknown (7,500 cited 1987)[1]
West Papuan
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
saj  Sahu
ibu  Ibu
Glottolog sahu1245  (Sahu)[2]
ibuu1240  (Ibu)[3]

Sahu (Sa’u, Sahu’u, Sau) is a Papuan Halmahera language. Use is vigorous; dialects are Pa’disua (Palisua), Tala’i, Waioli, and Gamkanora. A fifth dialect, Ibu, used to be spoken near the mouth of the Ibu River.[4]

References

  1. Sahu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Ibu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Sahu". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Ibu". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  4. Visser, L. E. and C.L. Voorhoeve. 1987. Sahu-Indonesian-English Dictionary and Sahu Grammar Sketch. Dordrecht: Foris.


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