Suena language
Suena is a Papuan language spoken in Morobe Province, in the "tail" of Papua New Guinea. It is part of the Binanderean family of the Trans–New Guinea phylum of languages.
| Suena | |
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| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Morobe Province |
Native speakers | 3,600 (2000)[1] |
Trans–New Guinea
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | sue |
| Glottolog | suen1241[2] |
The Yarawi people spoke Suena during most of the 20th century, but may have switched to Binandere.
References
- Suena at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Suena". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
External links
- "A Selective Word List in Ten Different Binadere Languages" (PDF). Cite journal requires
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