Wom language (Papua New Guinea)
Wom or Wam is a Papuan language of the Torricelli language family spoken by 4,264 people (as of 2003) in East Sepik province, Papua New Guinea.
| Wom | |
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| Region | East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea (12 villages) |
Native speakers | 4,300 (2003)[1] |
Torricelli
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | wmo |
| Glottolog | womp1235[2] |
External links
- Paradisec has two collections with materials from Wom, one from Arthur Capell (AC1) and the other from Don Laycock (DL2)
References
- Wom at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Wom (Papua New Guinea)". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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