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Ouma language

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.

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Ouma
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionCentral Province
ExtinctLate 1980s1
Language codes
ISO 639-3oum
Glottologouma1237
ELPOuma

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.

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  1. Ouma at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon