The Waruna language is a

Papuan language The Papuan languages are the non- Austronesian and non-Australian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands, by around 4 million people. It is a strictly geogra ...

of the New Guinea, spoken in a bend of the Fly River. It has 50% lexical similarity with

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, its closest relative. It is spoken in the single village of Waruna in Gogodala Rural LLG.

Bibliography

;Word lists *Ray, Sidney H. 1923. The languages of the Western Division of Papua. ''Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland'' 53: 332–360. *Riley, E. Baxter and Sidney H. Ray. 1930–1931. Sixteen vocabularies from the Fly River, Papua. ''Anthropos'' 25: 173–193, 831–850, 26: 171–192.

References

Languages of Papua New Guinea Gogodala–Suki languages {{papuan-lang-stub