Sera
[aka Ssia, Serra]Classification: Austronesian
·endangered
- DATE OF INFO
- 1970
- PLACES
- Papua New Guinea
- LOCATION DESCRIPTION
Puindu, Rainuk, and Sarai villages
Language metadata
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Ssia, Serra |
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Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, North New Guinea |
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ISO 639-3 |
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sry |
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Language information by source
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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
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
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 18th Edition” . Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig · SIL International
- DATE OF INFO
- 2000
- Scripts (Writing system)
- Latin
- PLACES
- Papua New Guinea
- LOCATION DESCRIPTION
"Sandaun Province, Sera area. 1 village."
Information from: “Australasia and the Pacific” (425-577) . Stephen Wurm (2007) , Christopher Moseley · Routledge
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Endangered
20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
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432
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The November 1998 tsunami annihilated most of the Sera-speaking population. Only a small number of speakers are left.
- DATE OF INFO
- 1981
- More on Orthography
No literacy
- PLACES
- Papua New Guinea
- LOCATION DESCRIPTION
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.