| Nativename | Mandi |
|---|---|
| States | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | East Sepik Province |
| Coordinates | 3.615291°S 143.726763°E |
| Ethnicity | 460 (2000 census)[1] |
| Speakers | 460 |
| Date | 2000 census |
| Ref | e25 |
| Familycolor | Papuan |
| Fam 1 | Torricelli |
| Fam 2 | Marienberg |
| Iso 3 | tua |
| Glotto | wiar1238 |
| Glottorefname | Wiarumus |
Wiarumus, or 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 the Mandi village (3.615291°S 143.726763°E), Turubu Rural LLG, East Sepik Province.[1][2]
External links
- Paradisec has two open access collections that include Wiarumus language materials; the first is Don Laycock's (DL2), the second is William Foley's (WF3)
References
- ^ e25
- ^ United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.