Watiwa language
| Watiwa | |
|---|---|
| Dumpu | |
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Madang Province |
Native speakers | 510 (2003)[1] |
| none | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | wtf |
| Glottolog | dump1243 |
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Watiwa is a Rai Coast language of Papua New Guinea.
It is spoken by some 500 people living in six villages in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, including Bebei (Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.) and Dumpu (Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.) 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
[edit | edit source]- ^ Watiwa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
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