| Waruna | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | north bank, Fly River |
Native speakers | (600 cited 1991)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | wrv |
| Glottolog | waru1267 |
The Waruna language is a Papuan language of the New Guinea, spoken in a bend of the Fly River. It has 50% lexical similarity with Ari, its closest relative. It is spoken in the single village of Waruna in Gogodala Rural LLG.[1][2][3]
Bibliography
- Word lists
- Ray, Sidney H. 1923. The languages of the Western Division of Papua. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 53: 332–360.
- Riley, E. Baxter and Sidney H. Ray. 1930–1931. Sixteen vocabularies from the Fly River, Papua. Anthropos 25: 173–193, 831–850, 26: 171–192.
References
- 1 2 Waruna at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ↑ United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
- ↑ Evans, Nicholas (2018). "The languages of Southern New Guinea". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 641–774. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.
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