A grammar of Sinaugoro - An Austronesian language of the Central Province of Papua New Guinea

Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1999. — x + 114 p. — ISBN 0858834901.Sinaugoro is a large Austronesian language belonging to the Papuan Tip Cluster. It is spoken by approximately 15,000 people living in the Rigo district of the Central Province some 70 kilometres south-east of Port Moresby. It is surrounded by the following related Austronesian languages: Motu in the west, Hula and Keapara in the south, Aroma in the south-east; and also by the following unrelated non-Austronesian languages: Maria in the east, Doromu in the north, Kware and Humene in the north-west. According to a survey by Dutton (1970) there are 17 dialects of Sinaugoro in an area that extends 720 square kilometres.