Ouma language
| Ouma | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Central Province |
| Extinct |
by 1996[1] 4 speakers cited 1981[2] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
oum |
| Glottolog |
ouma1237[3] |
Ouma is an extinct Austronesian language of Papua New Guinea. It was restructured through contact with neighboring Papuan languages, and it turn influencing them, before speakers shifted to those languages.
See also
- Magori language, a similar situation
References
- ↑ Ouma at Ethnologue (13th ed., 1996).
- ↑ Ouma at Ethnologue (12th ed., 1992).
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Ouma". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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