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

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]

References

^ Waima at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
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