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Ono

A language of Papua New Guinea

ISO 639-3: ons

Population	5,500 (1993 SIL).
Region	Morobe Province, Finschhafen District.
Language map	Papua New Guinea, Map 11, reference number 523
Dialects	Ziwe, Amugen.
Classification	Trans-New Guinea, Finisterre-Huon, Huon, Western
Language use	Spoken as L2 by 1,000 Nomu [noh] and Sialum [slw] (Voegelin and Voegelin 1977).
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 25%–50%. Literacy rate in L2: 50%–75%. NT: 1991.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	SOV. Swidden agriculturalists.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Anonymous. n.d.. Ono Organised Phonology Data.  

PHINNEMORE, Penny, author. 1988. "Coordination in Ono."

PHINNEMORE, Thomas R., author. 1976. Ono phonology and morphophonemics.

PHINNEMORE, Thomas R., author. 1985. "Ono phonology and morphophonemics."

PHINNEMORE, Thomas R., author. 1989. Questions: You might get a lot less than you asked for.