Usarufa language

Usarufa
Region Okapa District, Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea
Native speakers
1,300 (1996)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 usa
Glottolog usar1243[2]

Imikori Village

Imikori Village, from Moife Hill

Usarufa is a Kainantu language spoken by the people of the same name in Papua New Guinea. It belongs to the Gauwa branch of the Kainantu family of the Kainantu–Goroka languages. The language area consists of six villages: Moife, Imikori, Irafo, Kagu, Agura 1, and Agura 2. Its ISO 639 code is usa.

As of 2009, the language was reported to have had about 1200 speakers and no fluent speakers below the age of 25, which makes it an endangered language.

See also

References

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