Banaro language

Banaro
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Madang & East Sepik Provinces
Native speakers
 unknown (2,500 cited 1991)[1]
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

  1. ↑ Banaro at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. 1 2 Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Banaro". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ↑ Donald C. Laycock, 1973. 'Sepik languages: checklist and preliminary classification'. Pacific linguistics, Series B, Issue 25. Australian National University, Dept. of Linguistcs.
  4. ↑ Andrew Pawley, 2005, Papuan pasts
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