The Samaia River or Simaia River is a river in
Sandaun Province
Sandaun Province (formerly West Sepik Province) is the northwesternmost mainland province of Papua New Guinea. It covers an area of 35,920 km2 (13868 m2) and has a population of 248,411 (2011 census). The capital is Vanimo. In July 1998 the a ...
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Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ...
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[ Simaia Riverat ]Geonames.org (cc-by)
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post updated 2011-06-05; database downloaded 2015-06-22 The river flows through
Green River Rural LLG.
Various Papuan languages are spoken in the watershed of the Samaia River, including the
Amto–Musan languages
Amto–Musan is a language family of two closely related but mutually unintelligible Papuan languages, Amto and Siawi, spoken along the Samaia River of Sandaun Province of Papua New Guinea.
Languages
Foley (2018) and Usher (2020) agree that t ...
(also called the Samaia River languages).
[Usher, Timothy. 2020]
Samaia River
New Guinea World.
See also
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List of rivers of Papua New Guinea
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Arai–Samaia languages
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Amto–Musan languages
Amto–Musan is a language family of two closely related but mutually unintelligible Papuan languages, Amto and Siawi, spoken along the Samaia River of Sandaun Province of Papua New Guinea.
Languages
Foley (2018) and Usher (2020) agree that t ...
References
Rivers of Papua New Guinea
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