Sinasina language explained

Sinasina
States:Papua New Guinea
Region:Tabare Rural LLG, Chimbu Province
Date:2000 census
Ref:e25
Familycolor:Papuan
Fam1:Trans–New Guinea
Fam2:Chimbu–Wahgi
Fam3:Chimbu
Iso3:sst
Glotto:sina1271
Glottorefname:Sinasina

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. 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.[1] The Kere community also has a deaf sign language, Sinasina Sign Language.[2]

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  1. 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
  2. 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