Womo
Womo-Sumararu
RegionSandaun Province
Ethnicity190 in Onei village (2000 census);[1] unknown Sumararu
Native speakers
6 (2016)[2]
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[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″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.[2][5]

References

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


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