Waima language

Waima
Waima
Region	Eastern New Guinea
Native speakers	(15,000 cited 2000 census)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Oceanic Papuan Tip Central Papuan Tip West Central Nuclear West Central Waima; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	rro
Glottolog	waim1251

The Waima language (sometimes known as Roro, though this is strictly the name of one dialect of Waima) is a Nuclear West Central Papuan Tip language of the Oceanic group of Malayo-Polynesian languages, spoken in Papua New Guinea by 15,000 people. The three dialects, Waima, Roro, and Paitana, are very close.^[2]

Phonology

	Labial	Alveolar	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m	n
Plosive	p	t tʲ	k	ʔ
Fricative	β			h
Rhotic		ɾ
Approximant	w

/n/ can be palatalized as [ɲ] when before vowel sequences /ao, au/.^[3]

^ Waima at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ "Waima".
^ Kim, Namsoo & Duckshin (1998). Waima grammar essentials. Ukarumpa: SIL.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)

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