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

Sarasira

A language of Papua New Guinea

ISO 639-3zsa

Population  600 (2000 census).
Region  Morobe Province, upper Markham Valley, southeast side of Leron River.
Language map  Papua New Guinea, Map 11, reference number 543
Alternate names   Sirasira
Dialects  Related to Sukurum [zsu], Mari [hob] and Wampur [waz] (the “Mountain” subgroup of Upper Markham languages), and Adzera [azr] (the other Upper Markham language).
Classification  Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Western Oceanic, North New Guinea, Huon Gulf, Markham, Upper, Mountain