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A language of Papua New Guinea

ISO 639-3
wiu
Alternate Names
Wiru
Autonym
Witu
User Population

20,000 (Stewart and Strathern 2002).

Location

Southern Highlands province: Ialibu district.

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Language Status

5* (Developing).

Classification
Trans-New Guinea, Wiru
Language Use

Also use Tok Pisin [tpi] (Franklin and Kerr 2020). Used as L2 by East Kewapi [kjs], Imbongu [imo].

Language Development

Literacy rate in L1: 50%–75%. Literacy rate in L2: 25%–50%. Grammar. NT: 1990.

Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Witu
Writing

Latin script [Latn].