Usarufa language

Usarufa
Spoken in Okapa District, Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea
Native speakers 1,300  (1996)
Language family
Language codes
ISO 639-3 usa

Usarufa (Uturupa) 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. 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.

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