Papi language

{{Short description|Sepik language of Papua New Guinea}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Papi

|altname=Baiyamo

|states=Papua New Guinea

|region=East Sepik Province

|coordinates={{coord|-4.576892|141.961762|type:city_region:PG_source:enwiki|name=Paupe|display=inline,title}}

|speakers=220

|date=2011

|ref=e25

|familycolor=Papuan

|fam1=Sepik

|fam2=Leonhard Schultze

|fam3=Papi–Asaba

|iso3=ppe

|glotto=papi1255

|glottorefname=Papi

}}

Papi (Paupe; also known Baiyamo{{cite book |last=Foley |first=William A. |authorlink=William A. Foley |editor1-last=Palmer |editor1-first=Bill |date=2018 |title=The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide |chapter=The Languages of the Sepik-Ramu Basin and Environs |series= The World of Linguistics |volume=4 |location=Berlin |publisher=De Gruyter Mouton |pages=197–432 |isbn=978-3-11-028642-7}}) is an alleged Sepik language spoken in East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. Glottolog leaves it unclassified.{{cite web| editor-last1= Hammarström| editor-first1 = Harald| editor-last2 = Forke| editor-first2 = Robert| editor-last3 = Haspelmath| editor-first3 = Martin| editor-last4 = Bank| editor-first4 = Sebastian| year = 2020|title = Papi | work = Glottolog 4.3| url = https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/papi1255}}

It is spoken in the single village of Paupe ({{coord|-4.576892|141.961762|type:city_region:PG|name=Paupe}}) in Tunap/Hunstein Rural LLG of East Sepik Province.{{cite web |url=https://data.humdata.org/dataset/village-coordinates-lookup |title=Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup |author=United Nations in Papua New Guinea |work=Humanitarian Data Exchange |version=1.31.9 |date=2018}}