Guriaso or Muno is a language of
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n ...
. Only described in 1983, it appears to be distantly related to the
Kwomtari and
Nai languages. (See
Senu River languages
The Senu River languages are a small language family spoken in the Senu River watershed of Papua New Guinea.
They consist at least of the Kwomtari languages, Kwomtari and Nai, with several additional languages more distantly related to them.
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for details.) It is spoken in Guriaso ward (),
Amanab Rural LLG,
Sandaun Province
Sandaun Province (formerly West Sepik Province) is the northwesternmost mainland Provinces of Papua New Guinea, province of Papua New Guinea (also known as home of the sunset). It covers an area of 35,920 km2 (13868 m2) and has a population ...
.
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Languages of Sandaun Province
Guriaso–Yale languages
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