Alternate Names: Waremboivoro, Warenbori
Dialects: Bonoi Buroro. Lexical similarity: 33% with Yoke ,. 30% Austronesian vocabulary.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 600 (1998 SIL). L2 users: 20.
Language Use: Home. Mainly adults. Indonesian [ind] also used. Yoke [yki] also used. Also use Papuan Malay [pmy]. Used as L2 by Yoke [yki].
Language Development: Literacy rate in L2: 30% in Indonesian. Dictionary. Grammar.
Typology: Typology resembles Austronesian: SVO; prepositions; genitives before noun heads; articles, adjectives, numerals, relatives after noun heads; 1 prefix, 6 or more suffixes on a word; word order distinguishes subject, object, indirect object; topic (SVO) is for pragmatic salience; CV; nontonal.
Nation of Origin: Indonesia
Other Comments: Traditional religion, Christian.