Endangered Languages Project - Berinomo

Berinomo

^{[aka Bitara, Apowasi, Perbi]}

Classification: Sepik

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endangered

ALSO KNOWN AS		Bitara, Apowasi, Perbi
CLASSIFICATION		Sepik, Sepik Hill, Central Sepik Hill
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		bit
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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Information from: “Sepik languages: checklist and preliminary classification” . Laycock, Donald C. (1973) , Wurm, Stephen A. · Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, Department of Linguistics

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
178
Native speakers worldwide

PLACES: Papua New Guinea

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: 6 villages: Bayamo, Bitara, Kagiru, Pegi, Pisi, and Yanaut.

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: "The village list is probably not complete, but no other villages in the area had been censused at the time of writing this paper."

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
350
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
census

DATE OF INFO: 2000

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

PLACES: Papua New Guinea

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: "East Sepik Province, April river, Bitara and Kagiru villages."

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Information from: “Glottolog 2.3” . Hammarström, Harald & Forkel, Robert & Haspelmath, Martin & Nordhoff, Sebastian (2014)