Wiarumus language

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. It is spoken in Mandi village (3.615291°S 143.726763°E / -3.615291; 143.726763 (Mandi)), Turubu Rural LLG, East Sepik Province.[4][5]

Wiarumus
Mandi
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionEast Sepik Province
Ethnicity460 (2000 census)[1]
Native speakers
(160 cited 1981)[2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3tua
Glottologwiar1238
ELPWiarumus[3]
Coordinates: 3.615291°S 143.726763°E / -3.615291; 143.726763 (Mandi)

References

  1. Wiarumus at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Wiarumus at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
  3. Endangered Languages Project data for Wiarumus.
  4. Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Papua New Guinea languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
  5. United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.


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