Purari language
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| Purari | ||
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| Spoken in: | Purari River, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea | |
| Total speakers: | 7,000 (1991) | |
| Language family: | Trans-New Guinea Eleman Purari |
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| Writing system: | Latin alphabet | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | paa | |
| ISO 639-3: | iar | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Purari, also known as Koriki, Evorra, Namau, Iai, and Maipua, is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea.
[edit] References
- Holmes, J. H. (Jan.–Jun. 1913). "A Preliminary Study of the Namau Language, Purari Delta, Papua". The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 43: 124–142.
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