Blafe language

Blafe (Mblafe), also known as Tonda[2] or Indorodoro/Yendorador,[3] is a Papuan language of New Guinea. Dialects are Mblafe and Ránmo. It is centered in Indorodoro village (8.59196°S 141.29677°E / -8.59196; 141.29677 (Indorodoro)) of Kandarisa ward (8.621418°S 141.2194°E / -8.621418; 141.2194 (Kandarisa)), Morehead Rural LLG, Western Province, Papua New Guinea.[4] Mblafe-speaking villages are located along eastern banks of the Bensbach River and inland areas to the east of the river.[5]: 9 

Blafe
Tonda
RegionWestern Province, Papua New Guinea
Native speakers
670 (2003)[1]
Dialects
  • Blafe
  • Ranmo
Language codes
ISO 639-3bfh
Glottologblaf1238

References
  1. Blafe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. It is not, however, spoken in the village of Tonda for which it gets its old name.
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Blafe language". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
  5. John Grummitt, Janell Maste. 2012. A Survey of the Tonda Sub-Group of Languages. SIL International.
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