Adjora (Adjoria, Azao) a.k.a. Abu is a

Ramu language The Ramu languages are a family of some thirty languages of Northern Papua New Guinea. They were identified as a family by John Z'graggen in 1971 and linked with the Sepik languages by Donald Laycock two years later. Malcolm Ross (2005) class ...

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 ...

. A supposed dialect, ''Auwa'', apparently with few speakers, may be a distinct language.

Sociolinguistics

Many Adjora words have been borrowed by

Tayap Tayap is a small village of Cameroon located in the Centre Region, between the country's capital Yaounde (86 km) and Douala (164 km). The village of Tayap is part of the Ngog-Mapubi district of the Nyong-et-Kéllé department. Situa ...

, a nearby

language isolate Language isolates are languages that cannot be classified into larger language families. Korean and Basque are two of the most common examples. Other language isolates include Ainu in Asia, Sandawe in Africa, and Haida in North America. The nu ...

that is spoken just to the west of the Adjora area.

References

External links

OLAC resources in and about the Abu language

Listen to a sample of Abu from Global Recordings Network
Porapora languages Languages of East Sepik Province {{papuan-lang-stub