Binahari language

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Binahari
Region Papua New Guinea
Native speakers
630 (2000 census) [1]
Dialects
  • Binahari-Neme
  • Binahari-Ma
Language codes
ISO 639-3 bxz
Glottolog bina1273

Binahari is a Papuan language of New Guinea. Binahari-Ma is a dialect or a closely related language.

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References

  1. Binahari at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)