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Aruop language

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Native to
  
Papua New Guinea

Native speakers
  
(700 cited 1991)

Glottolog
  
aruo1240

Region
  
Sandaun Province

ISO 639-3
  
lsr

Language family
  
Torricelli Palei Aruop

Aruop is a Torricelli language of Papua New Guinea. Speakers of the language call the language Srenge or Lawu Srenge, where lawu is the Srenge word for 'language'. Speakers of surrounding languages call the language Aruop, which is the Srenge word for no, following a common convention in the region of using the word for 'no' in a language as a name for that language. Documentation of Srenge is currently underway by Matthew S. Dryer and Lea Brown of the University at Buffalo.

References

Aruop language Wikipedia