Sanio language

Not to be confused with Hewa language.
Sanio
Hiowe
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region East Sepik Province
Native speakers
1,300 (2000 census)[1]
Dialects
  • Saniyo
  • Hiyowe
Language codes
ISO 639-3 sny
Glottolog sani1270[2]

Sanio, or more precisely Saniyo-Hiyewe, is a Sepik language of northern Papua New Guinea.

References

  1. Sanio at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Saniyo-Hiyewe". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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