Ouma language

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Ouma
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionCentral Province
Extinctby 1996[1]
4 speakers cited 1981[2]
Language family
Austronesian
Language codes
ISO 639-3oum
Glottologouma1237
ELPOuma

Ouma is an extinct Austronesian language of Papua New Guinea. It was restructured through contact with neighboring Papuan languages, and it turn influencing them, before speakers shifted to those languages.

See also[]

  • Magori language, a similar situation

References[]

  1. ^ Ouma at Ethnologue (13th ed., 1996).
  2. ^ Ouma at Ethnologue (12th ed., 1992).


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