I'm other
I'm other | ||
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Spoken in |
Papua New Guinea | |
speaker | over 80,000 | |
Linguistic classification |
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Official status | ||
Official language in | nowhere | |
Language codes | ||
ISO 639 -1 |
- |
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ISO 639 -2 |
paa |
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ISO 639-3 |
bhg |
Binandere is a group of eleven Papuan languages of the Trans New Guinea branch in Papua New Guinea . One of the individual languages with 6902 speakers in this group is also called Binandere.
classification
- Other languages
- Binanderean Proper
- I'm other [bhg]
- Baruga [bjz]
- Doghoro [dgx]
- Gaina [gcn]
- Korafe [kpr]
- Ewage-Notu [nou]
- Orokaiva [ork]
- Suena [sue]
- Yekora [ykr]
- Zia [zia]
- Guhu Samane
- Guhu-Samane [ghs]
- Binanderean Proper
Geographical distribution and language development
Binandere languages are mainly used in the Oro Province and e.g. T. spoken in Morobe Province . The languages have no official status. In some of the languages there are translations of parts of the Bible - for Binanderean Proper even since 1912 - and other literature and e.g. T. radio programs. The literacy level of the speakers is very different.
Individual evidence
- ^ SIL International , 2003