Yaur or Jaur is a language in the putative Cenderawasih (Geelvink Bay) branch of the

Austronesian Austronesian may refer to: *The Austronesian languages *The historical Austronesian peoples The Austronesian peoples, sometimes referred to as Austronesian-speaking peoples, are a large group of peoples in Taiwan, Maritime Southeast Asia, M ...

family spoken in

Papua province Papua is a province of Indonesia, comprising the northern coast of Western New Guinea together with island groups in Cenderawasih Bay to the west. It roughly follows the borders of Papuan customary region of Tabi Saireri. It is bordered by ...

Western New Guinea Western New Guinea, also known as Papua, Indonesian New Guinea, or Indonesian Papua, is the western half of the Melanesian island of New Guinea which is administered by Indonesia. Since the island is alternatively named as Papua, the region ...

. It has about 300 speakers.

References

* Moseley, Christopher and R. E. Asher, ed. ''Atlas of World Languages'' (New York: Routledge, 1994) p. 111 South Halmahera–West New Guinea languages Languages of western New Guinea Papua (province) culture {{austronesian-lang-stub

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