Wiru language
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| Wiru | |
|---|---|
| Witu | |
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Ialibu-Pangia District, Southern Highlands Province |
| Ethnicity | Wiru |
Native speakers | (15,300 cited 1967, repeated 1981)[1] |
Papuan Gulf ?
| |
| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | wiu |
| Glottolog | wiru1244[3] |
 Map: The Wiru language of New Guinea
The Wiru language
Trans–New Guinea languages
Other Papuan languages
Austronesian languages
Uninhabited | |
Wiru or Witu is the language spoken by the Wiru people of Ialibu-Pangia District of the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea.
Trans–New Guinea–like pronouns are no 1sg (< *na) and ki-wi 2pl, ki-ta 2du (< *ki). There are a considerable number of resemblances with the Engan languages, suggesting Wiru might be a member of that family, but language contact has not been ruled out as the reason. Usher classifies it with the Teberan languages.
References[edit]
- ^ Wiru at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ^ New Guinea World, Tua River
- ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Wiru". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
Further reading[edit]
- "Outside and Inside Meanings: Non-Verbal and Verbal Modalities of Agonistic Communication the Wiru of Papua New Guinea" in Man and Culture in Oceania, Vol. 15
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