Walio languages

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

{{Infobox language family

|name=Walio

|altname=Central Leonhard Schultze River

|region=Sepik River basin, Papua New Guinea

|familycolor=Papuan

|fam1=Sepik

|fam2=Leonhard Schultze

|child1=Walio

|child2=Pei

|child3=Yawiyo

|child4=Tuwari

|glotto=wali1264

|glottorefname=Walioic

}}

The Walio languages are a small family of clearly related languages,

:Walio, Pei, Yawiyo, and Tuwari.

However, they are not close: Walio and Yawiyo have only a 12% lexical similarity.{{Ethnologue16|wla}} They are frequently classified among the Sepik languages of northern Papua New Guinea, though Glottolog leaves them out. Glottolog 3.4 classifies the Walio languages as an independent language family.