Baruga
Bareji
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionOro Province
Native speakers
2,500 (2000–2003)[1]
Dialects
  • Tafota
  • Daghoro
  • Bareji
  • Mado
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
bjz – Baruga
dgx – Doghoro
Glottologbaru1268

Baruga, also known ambiguously as Bareji, is a Papuan language spoken in Oro Province, in the "tail" of Papua New Guinea. The four rather divergent dialects are Tafota, Daghoro, Bareji, Mado. They are part of the Binanderean family of the Trans–New Guinea phylum of languages.

References

  1. ↑ Baruga at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Doghoro at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
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