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.[3][4]

Banaro
Waran
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionMadang & East Sepik Provinces
Native speakers
(2,500 cited 1991)[1]
Ramu
  • Ramu proper
    • Banaro
Language codes
ISO 639-3byz
Glottologbana1292
ELPBanaro[2]

References
  1. Banaro at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Endangered Languages Project data for Banaro.
  3. Donald C. Laycock, 1973. 'Sepik languages: checklist and preliminary classification'. Pacific linguistics, Series B, Issue 25. Australian National University, Department of Linguistics.
  4. Andrew Pawley, 2005, Papuan pasts


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