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Sissano language

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Native speakers
  
300 (2000)

ISO 639-3
  
sso

Writing system
  
Glottolog
  
siss1243

Region
  
Language family
  
AustronesianMalayo-PolynesianOceanicWesternSchoutenSiauSissano

Sissano is an Austronesian language spoken by at most a few hundred people around Sissano in Aitape District, Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea. 4,800 speakers were reported in 1990, but the 1998 tsunami wiped out most of the population.

References

Sissano language Wikipedia


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