Gira, or Madi (Girara), is one of the
Finisterre languages
The Finisterre languages are a language family, spoken in the Finisterre Range of Papua New Guinea, classified within the original Trans–New Guinea languages, Trans–New Guinea (TNG) proposal, and William A. Foley considers their TNG ident ...
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 ...
.
Names
The alternate names for Gira are Girara, Madi, and Gorovu.
References
Bibliography
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* A brief overview of the Gira language is found on p. 50.
Finisterre languages
Languages of Madang Province
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