Burate language

Burate
Region Indonesian Papua
Native speakers
 100 (2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 bti
Glottolog bura1276[2]

Burate is a Papuan language of the Indonesian province of Papua, on the eastern shore of Cenderawasih Bay.

Burate is lexically similar to the East Geelvink Bay languages and presumably belongs in that family, but is too poorly attested to be sure.

References

  1. ↑ Burate at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Burate". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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