Suena language

Suena is a Papuan language spoken in Morobe Province, in the "tail" of Papua New Guinea. It is part of the Binanderean family of the Trans–New Guinea phylum of languages.

Suena
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionMorobe Province
Native speakers
3,600 (2000)[1]
Trans–New Guinea
  • Binanderean
    • Suena
Dialects
  • Yarawi
Language codes
ISO 639-3sue
Glottologsuen1241[2]

The Yarawi people spoke Suena during most of the 20th century, but may have switched to Binandere.

References

  1. Suena at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Suena". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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