Womo language

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Womo
Womo-Sumararu
Region Sandaun Province
Ethnicity190 in Onei village (2000 census); [1] unknown Sumararu
Native speakers
6 (2016) [2]
Dialects
  • Womo
  • Sumararu
Language codes
ISO 639-3 wmx
Glottolog womo1238
Coordinates: 2°56′44″S141°50′53″E / 2.945603°S 141.848002°E / -2.945603; 141.848002 (Onei)

Womo and Sumararu [3] are a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea. The two varieties are sufficiently divergent that Usher counts them as distinct languages. [4]

Womo is spoken in Onei village ( 2°56′44″S141°50′53″E / 2.945603°S 141.848002°E / -2.945603; 141.848002 (Onei) ) of Bewani/Wutung Onei Rural LLG in Sandaun Province. [2] [5]

References

  1. ↑ ISO change request
  2. 1 2 Womo at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed Access logo transparent.svg
  3. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forke, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2020). "Womo-Sumararu". Glottolog 4.3.
  4. ↑ "Serra Hills - newguineaworld".[ dead link ]
  5. ↑ United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
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