Usarufa language
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| Usarufa | |
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| Region | Okapa District, Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea |
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Native speakers
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unknown (1,300 cited 1996)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | usa |
| Glottolog | usar1243[2] |
Imikori Village, from Moife Hill
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Usarufa is a Kainantu language spoken by the people of the same name in Papua New Guinea. It belongs to the Gauwa branch of the Kainantu family of the Kainantu–Goroka languages. The language area consists of six villages: Moife, Imikori, Irafo, Kagu, Agura 1, and Agura 2. Its ISO 639 code is usa.
As of 2009, the language was reported to have had about 1200 speakers and no fluent speakers below the age of 25, which makes it an endangered language.
See also
- Vida Chenoweth who studied the tribe's music
- Aikuma Android app for language recording, first used to record Usarufa
References
- ↑ Usarufa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
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- OLAC Resources in and about the Usarufa Language
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