Rerau language

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Rerau
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Madang Province
Native speakers
590 (2000 census) [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 rea
Glottolog rera1240 [2]

Rerau is a Rai Coast language spoken in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea.

The Rai Coast languages are a family of languages in the Madang stock of New Guinea.

Madang Province Place in Papua New Guinea

Madang is a province of Papua New Guinea. The province is on the northern coast of mainland Papua New Guinea and has many of the country's highest peaks, active volcanoes and its biggest mix of languages. The capital is the town of Madang.

Papua New Guinea constitutional monarchy in Oceania

Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea is a country in Oceania that occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia. Its capital, located along its southeastern coast, is Port Moresby. The western half of New Guinea forms the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua.

References

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