As language

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As
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Bird's Head Peninsula
Ethnicity	As
Native speakers	5-6 (2020)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian Eastern Malayo-Polynesian South Halmahera–West New Guinea Raja Ampat–South Halmahera As
Language codes
ISO 639-3	asz
Glottolog	asss1237
ELP	As
As Show map of Western New Guinea As Show map of Maluku
Coordinates: 0°45′S 131°44′E / 0.75°S 131.73°E / -0.75; 131.73

As is an Austronesian language spoken in the village of Asbaken, on the north coast of the Doberai Peninsula, on the Indonesian portion of the island of New Guinea.^[1] It was possibly originally spoken on Gag Island.^[2]

In 1987, Berry & Berry found approximately 300 speakers of As, but by 2020, Arnold found only six speakers, all elderly. The language is considered moribund as a result, though there is some interest among younger people in documenting the language before it is fully extinct.^[1]

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