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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Pacific > Papua New Guinea > Wampar

Wampar

A language of Papua New Guinea

ISO 639-3lbq

Population  5,150 (1990).
Region  Morobe Province, lower Markham and Wamped rivers.
Language maps  Papua New Guinea, Map 11, reference number 548
Papua New Guinea, Map 15, reference number 548
Alternate names   Laewamba, Laewomba, Laiwomba
Dialects  Lexical similarity: 50% with Adzera [adz].
Classification  Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Western Oceanic, North New Guinea, Huon Gulf, Markham, Lower, Wampar
Language development  NT: 1984.