Sera
[aka Ssia, Serra]Classification: Austronesian
·endangered
Classification: Austronesian
·endangered
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Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, North New Guinea |
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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
Puindu, Rainuk, and Sarai villages
Information from: “Australasia and the Pacific” (425-577) . Stephen Wurm (2007) , Christopher Moseley · Routledge
The November 1998 tsunami annihilated most of the Sera-speaking population. Only a small number of speakers are left.
No literacy
Sandaun Province. Spoken in one village on the northwestern coast of Papua New Guinea, to the west of the area originally occupied by the Sissano language.
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 18th Edition” . Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig · SIL International
"Sandaun Province, Sera area. 1 village."