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Dima language

Dima is a Papuan language of New Guinea.

Last revised
Jul 9, 2026
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≈ 1 min
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Citations
2
Source
Dima
Jimajima
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionMilne Bay Province
Native speakers
(750 cited 2001)1
Language codes
ISO 639-3jma
Glottologdima1252

Dima is a Papuan language of New Guinea.

Vocabulary

A word list of Dima can be found in Ray (1938).2

References

References

  1. Dima at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Ray, Sidney H. 1938. The languages of the Eastern and South-Eastern Division of Papua. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 68: 153–208.