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

Sukurum

A language of Papua New Guinea

ISO 639-3zsu

Population  1,160 (2000 census).
Region  Morobe Province, upper Markham Valley, northwest side of Leron River.
Language map  Papua New Guinea, Map 11, reference number 542
Dialects  Related to Sarasira [zsa], Mari [hob] and Wampur [waz] (the “Mountain” subgroup of Upper Markham languages), 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