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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Pacific > Papua New Guinea > Simbari

Simbari

A language of Papua New Guinea

ISO 639-3smb

Population  3,040 (1990 census).
Region  Eastern Highlands Province, Marawaka District.
Language maps  Papua New Guinea, Map 10, reference number 451
Papua New Guinea, Map 15, reference number 451
Alternate names   Chimbari
Classification  Trans-New Guinea, Angan, Nuclear Angan
Language use  Some also use English or Tok Pisin [tpi].
Comments  Swidden agriculturalists: sweet potatoes, cassava, coffee; hunters; gatherers; animal husbandry: pigs, poultry. Traditional religion, Christian.