Tokano language

Tokano
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Eastern Highlands Province, Goroka District
Native speakers
 unknown (6,000 cited 1982)[1]
Trans-New Guinea
Dialects
Lower Asaro
Zuhuzuho
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3 zuh
Glottolog toka1244[2]

Tokano is a Trans-New Guinea language spoken by approximately 6000 people in the Goroka District of the Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. It is also known as Gamuso, Tokama, Yufiyufa, Zaka, Zuhozuho, and Zuhuzuho.

There are currently few publications. A collection of folk tales translated by John Guhise was produced by SIL in 1977,[3][4] and there are also portions of the Bible available in Tokano.

References

  1. ↑ Tokano at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Tokano". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ↑ SIL Bibliography: Heluno gamoze.
  4. ↑ OLAC resources in and about the Tokano language, at the Open Language Archives.

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