Womo language

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Womo
Womo-Sumararu
RegionSandaun Province
Ethnicity190 in Onei village (2000 census);[1] unknown Sumararu
Dialects
  • Womo
  • Sumararu
Language codes
ISO 639-3wmx
Glottologwomo1238
Coordinates: 2°56′44″S 141°50′53″E / 2.945603°S 141.848002°E / -2.945603; 141.848002 (Onei)

Womo and Sumararu[2] are a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea. The two varieties are sufficiently divergent that Usher counts them as distinct languages.[3]

Womo is spoken in Onei village (2°56′44″S 141°50′53″E / 2.945603°S 141.848002°E / -2.945603; 141.848002 (Onei)) of Bewani-Wutung Onei Rural LLG in Sandaun Province.[4][5]

References

  1. ^ ISO change request
  2. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forke, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2020). "Womo-Sumararu". Glottolog 4.3.
  3. ^ "Serra Hills - newguineaworld".
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.