Porome language
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Porome | ||
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Spoken in: | southern Papua New Guinea | |
Total speakers: | 1000+ | |
Language family: | Trans-New Guinea ? Kiwai-Porome Porome |
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Language codes | ||
ISO 639-1: | none | |
ISO 639-2: | – | |
ISO 639-3: | – | |
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The Porome or Kibiri language is a Papuan language of southern Papua New Guinea. It was classified as a language isolate by Stephen Würm, but recently Malcolm Ross has linked it to the Kiwaian languages of the Trans-New Guinea family. There are over a thousand speakers.