Banaro language

Banaro
Waran
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionMadang & East Sepik Provinces
Native speakers
4,000 (2019)[1]
Ramu
  • Ramu proper
    • Banaro
Language codes
ISO 639-3byz
Glottologbana1292
ELPBanaro

Banaro is a Ramu language of Papua New Guinea. It is lexically divergent from the other branches of the family, having remarkably few cognates.[2][3]

  1. ^ Banaro at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Donald C. Laycock, 1973. 'Sepik languages: checklist and preliminary classification'. Pacific linguistics, Series B, Issue 25. Australian National University, Department of Linguistics.
  3. ^ Andrew Pawley, 2005, Papuan pasts