Upper Morehead language

Not to be confused with Wara language.
Upper Morehead
Wára
Region Western Province, Papua New Guinea
Native speakers
700 (2002)[1]
Dialects
Wára
Anta
Wèré
Language codes
ISO 639-3 tci
Glottolog wara1294[2]

Upper Morehead, also known as Wára, is a Papuan language of New Guinea. Varieties are Wára (Vara), Kómnjo (Rouku), Anta, and Wèré (Wärä); these are divergent enough to sometimes be listed as distinct languages.

References

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