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 |
| ELP | Banaro |
Banaro is a Ramu language of Papua New Guinea. It is lexically divergent from the other branches of the family, having remarkably few cognates.[2][3]
References
- ^ Banaro at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ 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