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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
Coordinates: 3°36′55″S 143°43′36″E / 3.615291°S 143.726763°E / -3.615291; 143.726763 (Mandi)

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°36′55″S 143°43′36″E / 3.615291°S 143.726763°E / -3.615291; 143.726763 (Mandi)), Turubu Rural LLG, East Sepik Province.[3][4]

References

  1. ^ Wiarumus at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Wiarumus at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005) Closed access icon
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.