Ouma language

Ouma
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Central Province
Extinct by 1996[1]
4 speakers cited 1981[2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 oum
Glottolog ouma1237[3]

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

References

  1. Ouma at Ethnologue (13th ed., 1996).
  2. Ouma at Ethnologue (12th ed., 1992).
  3. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Ouma". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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