Sinasina language

Sinasina
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionTabare Rural LLG, Chimbu Province
Native speakers
21,000 (2000 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3sst
Glottologsina1271

Sinasina is a term used to refer to for several Chimbu–Wahgi language varieties of Tabare Rural LLG (also called Sinasina), Simbu Province, Papua New Guinea.[1] The term 'Sinasina' as a language name is an exonym. Speakers of the varieties of this region instead refer to their languages with tok ples vernacular languages endonyms, including: Dinga, Gunangi, Kebai, Kere, Kondo, Nimai, Tabare.[2] The Kere community also has a deaf sign language, Sinasina Sign Language.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Sinasina at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Rarrick, Samantha Carol. 2017. A tonal grammar of Kere (Papuan) in typological perspective. (Doctoral dissertation, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa; 224pp.) http://hdl.handle.net/10125/62497
  3. ^ Rarrick, Samantha & Emmanuel Asonye. 2017. "Wellness & Linguistic Barriers in Deaf Communities in Nigeria & Papua New Guinea". 5th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation. Honolulu, HI. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/42056

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