Sinasina is a term used to refer to for several
Chimbu–Wahgi language varieties of
Tabare Rural LLG (also called Sinasina),
Simbu Province
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Papua New Guinea
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[ The term 'Sinasina' as a language name is an ]exonym
An endonym (from Greek: , 'inner' + , 'name'; also known as autonym) is a common, ''native'' name for a geographical place, group of people, individual person, language or dialect, meaning that it is used inside that particular place, group, ...
. Speakers of the varieties of this region instead refer to their languages with ''tok ples'' vernacular languages
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endonyms, including: Dinga, Gunangi, Kebai, Kere, Kondo, Nimai, Tabare. The Kere community also has a deaf sign language
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, Sinasina Sign Language.[Rarrick, Samantha & Emmanuel Asonye. 2017. "Wellness & Linguistic Barriers in Deaf Communities in Nigeria & Papua New Guinea". 5th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation. Honolulu, HI. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/42056]
See also
* Sinasina Sign Language
ranslation of New Testament. A translation of New Testament in the Tabare dialect the Sinasina language was completed and printed in 1975 by Charles Turner who at that time, was a member of New Tribes Mission. Charles also put together a Tabare dictionary which a copy of, I believe is in the library at the University of Port Moresby. Also there were primers written to help the local people read and write their own language. Rosalie Ranquist and Nell Dreghorn were primarily responsible for these. I do believe copies of all these are still available.
References
External links
* Recording of a word list in the Tabare dialect of Sinasina is archived with Kaipuleohone Kaipuleohone is a digital ethnographic archive that houses audio and visual files, photographs, as well as hundreds of textual material such as notes, dictionaries, and transcriptions relating to small and endangered languages. The archive is stored ...
Languages of Simbu Province
Chimbu–Wahgi languages
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