Bilur language

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Bilur
Minigir
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region East New Britain Province
Native speakers
4,200 (2012) [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 bxf
Glottolog bilu1244 [2]

Bilur, also ambiguously known as Minigir, is an Oceanic language of the Papua New Guinea. It is not closely related to other languages, and its classification is uncertain.

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References

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