Waima language

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Waima
Spoken in:	Eastern New Guinea
Genetic classification:	Austronesian  Malayo-Polynesian   Central Eastern M.-P.    Eastern Malayo-Polynesian     Oceanic      Western Oceanic       Papuan Tip        Peripheral Papuan Tip         Central Papuan          West Central Papuan           Nuclear W. C. Papuan            Waima

Waima (sometimes known as Roro, though this is strictly the name of one dialect of Waima) is a Nuclear West Central Papuan language of the Oceanic group of Malayo-Polynesian languages, spoken in Papua New Guinea by 15,000 people.

[edit] External link

• Waima at Ethnologue