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Ouma language

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Native to
  
Papua New Guinea

ISO 639-3
  
oum

Region
  
Central Province

Glottolog
  
ouma1237

Extinct
  
by 1996 4 speakers cited 1981

Language family
  
Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Oceanic Papuan Tip Central Oumic Ouma

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.

References

Ouma language Wikipedia