Piame language

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Piame
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region East Sepik Province
Ethnicity Hewa
Native speakers
(100 cited 1981) [1]
Sepik
Language codes
ISO 639-3 pin
Glottolog piam1243
ELP Piame

Piame is a Sepik language of northern Papua New Guinea. Speakers did not make contact with the outside world until 1982. [1] [ Then how do we have a population fig. published in 1981? ]

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References

  1. 1 2 Piame at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

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