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Guriaso language

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ12631954 ↗
Source-derived summary

Guriaso or Muno is a language of Papua New Guinea. Only described in 1983, it appears to be distantly related to the Kwomtari and Nai languages. (See Senu River languages for details.) It is spoken in Guriaso ward (3.581107°S 141.592197°E / -3.581107; 141.592197 (Guriaso)), Amanab Rural LLG, Sandaun Province.

References

Sources

Baron, Wietze (1983). "Kwomtari survey" (PDF).

Editorial summary

“Guriaso language” enters the record as language. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Guriaso and language can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1983—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Guriaso and language.
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Why this record matters

“Guriaso language” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Guriaso and language provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q12631954. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1983.

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This entry incorporates text from “Guriaso language” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.