Ethnologue

Som

ISO 639-3

Alternate Names

Dinanget, Somm

Population

80 (Wurm 2000).

Location

Morobe province: northwest Huon peninsula, on middle Som river, a tributary of Uruwa river, east of Wantoat [wnc] language area.

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Language Status

7 (Shifting).

Classification

Dialects

None known. Reportedly most similar to Nukna [klt].

Language Use

Endangered (2000 S. Wurm). Under pressure from Wantoat [wnc] and Tok Pisin [tpi] (Wurm 2007).

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