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, 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. ↑ 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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