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Pouye

A language of Papua New Guinea

ISO 639-3: bye

Population	960 (2003 SIL), increasing.
Region	Sandaun Province, Lumi, East and West Wapei districts. 7 villages.
Language map	Papua New Guinea, Map 3, reference number 80
Alternate names	Bouye
Dialects	Related to Awtuw [kmn], Karawa [xrw]. Lexical similarity: 67% with Karawa.
Classification	Sepik, Ram
Language use	Vigorous. All domains. All ages. Most also use Tok Pisin [tpi].
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 5%. Literacy rate in L2: 15%–20% (Tok Pisin). Bible portions: 1995–2007.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	SOV. Hunter-gatherers, agriculturalists. Christian, traditional religion.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Anonymous. 2011. Bouye Organised Phonology Data.  

BROWNIE, John, editor. 2000. Sociolinguistic and literacy studies: South-West, Sepik and Morobe.

FERREE, Steve, author. 2000. "Pouye."