The Schouten languages are a linkage of

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in northern

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. They are in contact with various

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, particularly the Skou and some

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languages. They are named after the

Schouten Islands The Biak Islands (, also Schouten Islands or Geelvink Islands) are an island group of Southwest Papua province, eastern Indonesia in the Cenderawasih Bay (or Geelvink Bay) 50 km off the north-western coast of the island of New Guinea. Th ...

of Papua New Guinea.

Language

*Schouten **Siau family *** Arop-Sissano *** Sera, Sissano *** Ulau-Suain *** Tumleo *** Yakamul (Kap, Ali) **Kairiru linkage: *** Kaiep *** Kairiru *** Terebu **Manam linkage: *** Biem *** Kis *** Manam *** Medebur *** Sepa *** Wogeo ''Ethnologue'' adds Malol to Siau. The Siau family is spoken in

Sandaun Province Sandaun Province (formerly West Sepik Province) is the northwesternmost mainland Provinces of Papua New Guinea, province of Papua New Guinea (also known as home of the sunset). It covers an area of 35,920 km2 (13868 m2) and has a population ...

. The Kairiru linkage is spoken in

East Sepik Province East Sepik is a province in Papua New Guinea. Its capital is Wewak. East Sepik has an estimated population of 450,530 people (2011 census) and is 43,426 km square in size. Its density is 10.4 people per square kilometer. History Cherubim D ...

. The Manam linkage is spoken in

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and Wewak Islands Rural LLG of

References

External links

Kaipuleohone Kaipuleohone is a digital ethnographic archive that houses audio and visual files, photographs, as well as hundreds of textual material such as notes, dictionaries, and transcriptions relating to small and endangered languages. The archive is stored ...

includes written notes on Manam from

Robert Blust Robert A. Blust (; zh, c=白樂思, p=Bái Lèsī; May 9, 1940 – January 5, 2022) was an American linguist who worked in several areas, including historical linguistics, lexicography and ethnology. He was Professor of Linguistics at the Uni ...

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