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Watiwa language

Watiwa language

Endangered Rai Coast language of Papua New Guinea

Watiwa is a Rai Coast language of Papua New Guinea.

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It is spoken by some 500 people living in six villages in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, including Bebei (5.861935°S 145.711953°E / -5.861935; 145.711953 (Bembe)) and Dumpu (5.888972°S 145.736011°E / -5.888972; 145.736011 (Dumpu / Taborabo 1 and 2)) villages of Usino Rural LLG.[2][3]

It is more commonly known as Dumpu, but this is the name of one of the six villages, and is not accepted as a name for the language. Surviving mostly as a secret language with which to talk amongst themselves when outsiders are present,[4] the majority of the speakers use Tok Pisin in daily life. Due to its increasingly rare use, it is estimated that this language will be extinct in a few decades.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    Watiwa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. [2]
    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.
  3. [3]
    United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
  4. [4]
    "PNG Language Resources endangered languages document" (PDF). SIL International. Retrieved 2009-05-13.


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