Wiarumus language
| Wiarumus | |
|---|---|
| Mandi | |
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | East Sepik Province |
| Ethnicity | 460 (2000 census)[1] |
Native speakers | (160 cited 1981)[2] |
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Torricelli
| |
| 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.
External links
- Paradisec has two open access collections that include Wiarumus language materials; the first is Don Laycock's (DL2), the second is William Foley's (WF3)
References
- ↑ Wiarumus at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Wiarumus at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
- ↑ 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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