Tairuma language

Tairuma
Uaripi
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Gulf Province
Native speakers	4,500 (2004)[1]
Language family	Trans–New Guinea Eleman nuclear Eleman Eastern Tairuma
Language codes
ISO 639-3	uar
Glottolog	tair1256

Tairuma, also known as Uaripi after its location, is a Trans–New Guinea language spoken in Uaripi (07°57′00″S 145°44′06″E) in Central Kerema Rural LLG, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea.^[2]

A grammar of Tairuma was written by Ikamu and Jo in 2014.^[3]

References

1. Tairuma at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
3. Ikamu, Gabriel and Joong-Hwan Jo. 2014. Tentative grammar description for the Tairuma language. Manuscript.

• Rueck, Michael J., Margaret Potter, and Badi Vila. 2010. A Sociolinguistic Profile of the Tairuma [uar] Language Group. SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2010-021.