Waruna language

Waruna
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	north bank, Fly River
Native speakers	(600 cited 1991)[1]
Language family	Papuan Gulf ? Gogodala–Suki Gogodala Waruna
Language codes
ISO 639-3	wrv
Glottolog	waru1267

The Waruna language is a Papuan language of the New Guinea, spoken in a bend of the Fly River. It has 50% lexical similarity with Ari, its closest relative. It is spoken in the single village of Waruna in Gogodala Rural LLG.[1][2][3]

Bibliography

Word lists

• Ray, Sidney H. 1923. The languages of the Western Division of Papua. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 53: 332–360.
• Riley, E. Baxter and Sidney H. Ray. 1930–1931. Sixteen vocabularies from the Fly River, Papua. Anthropos 25: 173–193, 831–850, 26: 171–192.

References

1. Waruna at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
2. United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
3. Evans, Nicholas (2018). "The languages of Southern New Guinea". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 641–774. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.