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Banaro language

Banaro is a Ramu language of Papua New Guinea. It is lexically divergent from the other branches of the family, having remarkably few cognates.

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Banaro
Waran
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionMadang & East Sepik Provinces
Native speakers
4,000 (2019)1
Ramu
  • Ramu proper
    • Banaro
Language codes
ISO 639-3byz
Glottologbana1292
ELPBanaro

Banaro is a Ramu language of Papua New Guinea. It is lexically divergent from the other branches of the family, having remarkably few cognates.23

References

References

  1. Banaro at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. Donald C. Laycock, 1973. 'Sepik languages: checklist and preliminary classification'. Pacific linguistics, Series B, Issue 25. Australian National University, Department of Linguistics.
  3. Andrew Pawley, 2005, Papuan pasts