Papunesia · ISO 639-3 aau · Glottocode abau1245
Abau
Abau represents a Sepik language in Papua New Guinea with a shifting source status.
- Language family
- Sepik
- Likely script
- Latin (Latn)
- Source status
- shifting
- Macroarea
- Papunesia
- Source country codes
- PG
- Reference point
- -3.972, 141.324
Open research question
Which local sources can describe transmission, multilingualism and actual writing practices more precisely?
This question is an assignment for later subject and community-proximate source review, not a claim about a uniform cultural worldview.
Scholarly boundary
The map point is a Glottolog reference point, not a language-area boundary. The script field is a likely Unicode CLDR assignment, not a complete history of orthography. Information on endangerment and countries follows the linked source data and does not replace current local assessment.