The Yareban or Musa River languages are a small family within the Trans-New Guinea languages, spoken near the Musa River in the Bird's Tail peninsula of Oro Province, in southeastern Papua New Guinea, within the Southeast Papuan branch's Owen Stanley Range grouping. The family comprises four languages, Moikodi, also called Doriri, Aneme Wake, also called Abia, Yareba, and the closely related Bariji and Nawaru, grouped together as Barijian.
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Yareban is a small family of the Trans-Fly - Bulaka River area of Papua New Guinea, classified within the Trans-New Guinea phylum.
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1. Glottolog: Yareban (languoid record)
GlottologLanguoid record: child_language_count
"child_language_count": 5
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"level": "family", "bookkeeping": false, "category": "Family"
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