Wiarumus language

Wiarumus
Mandi
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region East Sepik Province
Ethnicity 460 (2000 census)[1]
Native speakers
(160 cited 1981)[2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 tua
Glottolog wiar1238[3]

Wiarumus, a.k.a. 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. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Wiarumus". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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