Wiarumus language

Wiarumus
Mandi
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region East Sepik Province
Ethnicity 460 (2000 census)[1]
Native speakers
 unknown (160 cited 1981)[2]
Torricelli

  • Marienberg

    • Wiarumus
Language codes
ISO 639-3 tua
Glottolog wiar1238[3]

Wiarumus, AKA Mandi, is a Torricelli language of Papua New Guinea, spoken in a village of just under 500. Only those villagers born before ca. 1940 can speak it.

References

  1. ↑ Wiarumus at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Wiarumus at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
  3. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Wiarumus". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.