Waima language
| Waima | |
|---|---|
| Region | Eastern New Guinea |
Native speakers | 15,000 (2000 census)[1] |
|
Austronesian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
rro |
| Glottolog |
waim1251[2] |
The Waima language (sometimes known as Roro, though this is strictly the name of one dialect of Waima) is a Nuclear West Central Papuan Tip language of the Oceanic group of Malayo-Polynesian languages, spoken in Papua New Guinea by 15,000 people. The three dialects, Waima, Roro, and Paitana, are very close.[3]
References
- ↑ Waima at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Waima". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ http://www.ethnologue.com/language/rro