Upper Morehead language

Upper Morehead
Wára
Region Western Province, Papua New Guinea
Native speakers
700 (2002)[1]
Dialects
Language codes
ISO 639-3 tci
Glottolog wara1294[2]

Upper Morehead, also known as Wára, is a Papuan language of New Guinea. Varieties are Wára (Vara), Kómnjo (Rouku), Anta, and Wèré (Wärä); these are divergent enough to sometimes be listed as distinct languages.

References

  1. Upper Morehead at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Wara (Papua New Guinea)". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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