Angoram, also known as Pondo and by its speakers as Kanda, is a
Papuan language
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of
Papua New Guinea
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.
Maramba, listed in ''
Ethnologue
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'', has been found by Foley (2018: 226) to in fact be a dialect of Angoram that is spoken in Maramba village.
References
External links
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PARADISEC open-access archive o
Angoram language recordings
Lower Sepik languages
Languages of East Sepik Province
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