Amto

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A language of Papua New Guinea

ISO 639-3
amt
User Population

500 (2013 SIL). Ethnic population: 500 (2013 SIL).

Location

Sandaun province: Amanab and Rocky Peak districts, Amto, Amu and Habiyon villages south of Upper Sepik river, toward Left May river headwaters on Samaia river.

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Language Status

6a (Vigorous).

Classification
Amto-Musan
Dialects

Eimaur, Tipiketi.

Typology

SOV; postpositions, genitives before noun heads; adjectives after noun heads; relatives without noun heads; question word final; maximum prefixes: 1, maximum suffixes: 3, causatives, comparatives; CV, CVV, CVVV, CCV, CCCV, nontonal.

Language Use

Used by all. Also use Siawi [mmp]. Also use Tok Pisin [tpi]. Used as L2 by Siawi [mmp].

Language Development

Literacy rate in L2: 30% in Tok Pisin [tpi].

Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Amto
Writing

Latin script [Latn], limited usage.

Other Comments

Traditional religion, Christian.