Bina language (Papua New Guinea)
| Bina | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Central Province |
| Extinct | (2 non-primary speakers reported 1981)[1] |
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Austronesian
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
bmn |
| Glottolog |
bina1271[2] |
Bina is an extinct Austronesian language of Papua New Guinea. It was restructured through contact with neighboring Papuan languages, and it turn influencing them, before speakers shifted to those languages.
See also
- Magori language, a similar situation
References
- ↑ Bina at Ethnologue (14th ed., 2000).
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Bina (Papua New Guinea)". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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