Wom language (Papua New Guinea)

Wom
Region	East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea (12 villages)
Native speakers	4,300 (2003)
Language family	Torricelli Wom
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	wmo
Glottolog	womp1235
ELP	Wom

For the Nigerian language, see Perema language.

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.

Phonology

Consonants

	Labial	Alveolar	Dorsal
			plain	labial
Plosive	p	t	k	kʷ
Prenasalized	ᵐb	ⁿd	ᵑg	ᵑgʷ
Fricative		s	h
Nasal	m	n
Approximant		l	j	w

• The prenasalised plosives /ᵐb ⁿd ᵑg ᵑgʷ/ are plain [b d g gʷ] word-initially.
• /s/ can be realized as [ts] word-initially.
• /h/ can be heard as [x] intervocalically.

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
High	i		u
Mid	e		o
Low		a

Additionally, the following diphthongs can be found: /ei/, /ai/, /oi/, /au/, /ou/.

Stress is phonemic.

External links

• Paradisec has two collections with materials from Wom, one from Arthur Capell (AC1) and the other from Don Laycock (DL2)