Womo language

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

Womo is spoken in Onei village (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; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Womo-Sumararu". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  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.


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