| Sinasina | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Tabare Rural LLG, Chimbu Province |
| Native speakers | (21,000 cited 2000 census) |
| Language family | Trans–New Guinea
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | sst |
| Glottolog | sina1271 |
Sinasina is a term used to refer to for several Chimbu–Wahgi language varieties of Tabare Rural LLG (also called Sinasina), Simbu Province, Papua New Guinea. The term 'Sinasina' as a language name is an exonym. Speakers of the varieties of this region instead refer to their languages with tok ples vernacular languages endonyms, including: Dinga, Gunangi, Kebai, Kere, Kondo, Nimai, Tabare. The Kere community also has a deaf sign language, Sinasina Sign Language.
See also
References
- ^ Sinasina at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- Rarrick, Samantha Carol. 2017. A tonal grammar of Kere (Papuan) in typological perspective. (Doctoral dissertation, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa; 224pp.) http://hdl.handle.net/10125/62497
- Rarrick, Samantha & Emmanuel Asonye. 2017. "Wellness & Linguistic Barriers in Deaf Communities in Nigeria & Papua New Guinea". 5th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation. Honolulu, HI. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/42056
External links
- Recording of a word list in the Tabare dialect of Sinasina is archived with Kaipuleohone
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