Binandere

The Binandere are a Papuan people of the northeast coast of the Bird's Tail of New Guinea and the namesake of the Binanderean, or Guhu–Oro, family of Trans–New Guinea languages. The family appears to have spread from the north along the Oro and Morobe coasts, and Binanderean-speaking inland communities gradually absorbed earlier Austronesian settlements on the shore.

The contact was deep enough to give neighbouring Papuan Tip languages their Binanderean-style word order. Binandere speech stands at the centre of this network, close to the Orokaiva, Baruga and Suena languages around it.