Adjora language

Adjora (Adjoria, Azao) a.k.a. Abu is a Ramu language of Papua New Guinea.

Adjora
Adjoria, Azao
Abu
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	East Sepik Province
Native speakers	(4,200 cited 2000 census)[1]
Language family	Ramu Grass Porapora Adjora
Dialects	Abu, Auwa, Sabu
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ado
Glottolog	abuu1241
ELP	Abu
Map of the region where Adjora is spoken, according to Ethnologue data.

A supposed dialect, Auwa, apparently with few speakers, may be a distinct language. One confirmed dialect, however, is Sabu, which is spoken in the northeast of the language's region.

Location

Adjora is spoken in the Madang and East Sepik provinces of Papua New Guinea, specifically between Angoram, Ramu, and Sepik rivers and in the northwest of Madang. It is used in approximately 22 villages.^[2]

Sociolinguistics

Many Adjora words have been borrowed by Tayap, a nearby language isolate that is spoken just to the west of the Adjora area.^[3]: 350 It is also closely related to the Waran language (also known as Banaro).

Most of its 4,200 speakers are Abu (3,380), though there are 820 Savunese speakers.^[2]

References

1. Adjora at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2024). "Abu on Ethnologue: Languages of the World". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (27 ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Retrieved May 31, 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
3. Kulick, Don; Terrill, Angela (2019). A Grammar and Dictionary of Tayap: The Life and Death of a Papuan Language. Pacific Linguistics 661. Boston/Berlin: Walter de Gruyter Inc. ISBN 9781501512209.

External links

• OLAC resources in and about the Abu language
• Listen to a sample of Abu from Global Recordings Network