Porome language

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Porome
Spoken in: southern Papua New Guinea
Total speakers: 1000+
Language family: Trans-New Guinea ?
 Kiwai-Porome
  Porome
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
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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.

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