Social:Sori-Harengan language

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Short description: Oceanic language spoken in Papua New Guinea
Sori-Harengan
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionSori and Harengan Islands, and northwestern coast of Manus Island, Manus Province
Native speakers
(570 cited 1977)[1]
Austronesian
  • Malayo-Polynesian
    • Oceanic
      • Admiralty Islands
        • Eastern Admiralty Islands
          • Manus
            • West Manus
              • Sori-Harengan
Language codes
ISO 639-3sbh
Glottologsori1242[2]

The Sori-Harengan language is a West Manus language spoken by approximately 570 people on the Sori and Harengan Islands, northwest off the coast of Manus Island, and on the northwestern coast Manus Island, Papua New Guinea.[1] It has SVO word order.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Sori-Harengan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Sori-Harengan". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/sori1242. 

External links

  • Notes on Sori by Robert Blust are archived with Kaipuleohone