Sinsauru language

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Sinsauru
Kow
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Madang Province
Native speakers
500 (2003) [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 snz
Glottolog sins1241 [2]

Sinsauru, or Kow, 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.

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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.

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The name Kow is also used for closely related Asas.

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References

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