Hember Avu language
{{Short description|Papuan language of Papua New Guinea}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Hember Avu
|nativename=Musar
|altname=Aregerek
|states=Papua New Guinea
|region=Madang Province
|speakers=1,500
|date=2000
|ref=e25
|familycolor=Papuan
|fam1=Trans–New Guinea?
|fam2=Madang
|fam3=Croisilles
|fam4=NW Adelbert Range
|fam5=Tiboran
|iso3=mmi
|glotto=musa1265
|glottorefname=Hember Avu
}}
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Hember Avu, also Aregerek, Musar or Amben, is a Papuan language of Sumgilbar Rural LLG, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea.{{cite thesis |type=PhD dissertation |last=Pick |first=Andrew |date=2020 |title=A reconstruction of Proto-Northern Adelbert phonology and lexicon |publisher=University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |url=http://ling.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/PickDissertation.pdf |access-date=2023-03-01 |archive-date=2023-06-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230604222258/http://ling.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/PickDissertation.pdf |url-status=dead }}
Distribution
Hember Avu is spoken in seven villages:
- Salemben ({{coord|-4.710629|145.408306|type:city_region:PG|name=Salemben}})
- Erinduk ({{coord|-4.649225|145.461903|type:city_region:PG|name=Erenduk}})
- Sevan ({{coord|-4.679431|145.443655|type:city_region:PG|name=Sevan}})
- Erek Erek ({{coord|-4.714899|145.455956|type:city_region:PG|name=Eregereg}})
- Nagemak
- Kumbu ({{coord|-4.693571|145.384719|type:city_region:PG|name=Kumbu}})
- Embor ({{coord|-4.732267|145.358081|type:city_region:PG|name=Embor}})