Baruga language

Baruga, also known ambiguously as Bareji, is a Papuan language spoken in Oro Province, in the "tail" of Papua New Guinea. The four rather divergent dialects are Tafota, Daghoro, Bareji, Mado. They are part of the Binanderean family of the Trans–New Guinea phylum of languages.

Baruga
Bareji
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionOro Province
Native speakers
2,500 (2000–2003)[1]
Trans–New Guinea
  • Binanderean
    • Baruga
Dialects
  • Tafota
  • Daghoro
  • Bareji
  • Mado
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
bjz  Baruga
dgx  Doghoro
Glottologbaru1268[2]

References

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