Banaro language
| Banaro | |
|---|---|
| Waran | |
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Madang & East Sepik Provinces |
Native speakers | (2,500 cited 1991)[1] |
|
Ramu
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
byz |
| Glottolog |
bana1292[2] |
Banaro is a Ramu language of Papua New Guinea. It is lexically divergent from the rest of the Grass family, having remarkably few cognates.[3][4] Glottolog treats it as an isolate.[2]
References
- ↑ Banaro at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- 1 2 Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Banaro". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Donald C. Laycock, 1973. 'Sepik languages: checklist and preliminary classification'. Pacific linguistics, Series B, Issue 25. Australian National University, Department of Linguistics.
- ↑ Andrew Pawley, 2005, Papuan pasts
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