Suena language

Suena
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionMorobe Province
Native speakers
3,600 (2000)[1]
Dialects
  • Yarawi
Language codes
ISO 639-3sue
Glottologsuen1241
ELPSuena
Suena is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Suena is a Papuan language spoken in Morobe Province, in the "tail" of Papua New Guinea. It is part of the Binanderean family of the Trans–New Guinea phylum of languages.

The Yarawi people spoke Suena during most of the 20th century, but may have switched to Binandere.

References

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  1. ^ Suena at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
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  • "A Selective Word List in Ten Different Binadere Languages" (PDF). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)