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Benabena

A language of Papua New Guinea

ISO 639-3: bef

Population	45,000 (1998 NTM).
Region	Eastern Highlands Province, Goroka District.
Language map	Papua New Guinea, Map 10, reference number 459
Alternate names	Bena
Classification	Trans-New Guinea, Kainantu-Goroka, Gorokan, Gahuku-Benabena
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 25%–50%. Literacy rate in L2: 50%–75%. Grammar. NT: 1983.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	Swidden agriculturalists. Traditional religion, Christian.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

PENCE, Alan R., editor. 1964. Verb studies in five New Guinea languages.  

SHAW, R. Daniel, editor. 1974. Kinship studies in Papua New Guinea.

YOUNG, Robert A., author. 1964. "The primary verb in Bena-bena."  

YOUNG, Robert A., author. 1970. The verb in Bena-bena: its form and function.

YOUNG, Robert A., author. 1971. The verb in Bena-bena: its form and function.

YOUNG, Robert A., author. 2009. A generative phonology of the verb in Bena-Bena.  

YOUNG, Robert A., author. Available: 2006; Created: 1969?. A tentative case grammar in Benabena.  

YOUNG, Robert A., author. Available: 2009; Created: 1970?. Bena-Bena sentences.  

YOUNG, Robert A., author. Available: 2009; Created: 1975-08. Notes on the dialect differences of Bena-bena.  

YOUNG, Robert A.; YOUNG, Rosemary, authors. 1965. "The three dimensional classification system of Bena-bena nouns."

YOUNG, Robert A.; YOUNG, Rosemary, authors. Available: 2009; Created: 1961. The phonemes of Bena-Bena (a routine statement).  

YOUNG, Robert A.; YOUNG, Rosemary, compilers. Available: 2006; Created: 1975?. Benabena dictionary.  

YOUNG, Robert, compiler. 1992. Benabena Organised Phonology Data.  

YOUNG, Rosemary, author. 1962. "The phonemes of Kanite, Kamano, Benabena, and Gahuku."

YOUNG, Rosemary, author. 1968. "Words under a bushel."

YOUNG, Rosemary, author. 1974. "The social hierarchy of the Bena-Bena."

Vernacular Publications

Bena-bena ka—Pisini ka—Igilisi ka. 1971.

Egoloto kehelilane. 1964.

Gamani hapaʼa yabe. 1972.

Ka hapaʼa 1-4. 1967.

Kale, uili uili, boti balusi huto huʼehina ka yabe. 1968.

Kosihi fatehaka nehabe. 1973.

Leka sobo 1-4. 1967.

Matiasiu gamani muʼi kaga luʼehina yabe. 1972.

Napa hapaʼa 1, 2. 1971.

Pitau tini miti mina nofibe. 1971.