Dumpu language

Dumpu
Spoken in	Papua New Guinea
Region	Madang Province[1]
Native speakers	510  (2003)
Language family	Trans–New Guinea Madang Rai Coast Dumpu
Writing system	none
Language codes
ISO 639-3	wtf

With approximately 510 speakers living in six villages in Papua New Guinea, Dumpu is a little-known Trans–New Guinea language. It is also known as Watifa or Watiwa.^[2] Surviving mostly as a secret language with which to talk amongst themselves when outsiders are present,^[3] the majority of the speakers use Tok Pisin in daily life. Due to its increasingly rare use, it is estimated that this language will be extinct in a few decades.^[3]

References

1. ^ "Ethnologue report for language code:wtf". Ethnologue. http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=wtf. Retrieved 2009-05-13. 
2. ^ "The Dumpu Language". The Linguist List. http://linguistlist.org/forms/langs/LLDescription.cfm?code=wtf. Retrieved 2009-05-13. 
3. ^ ^{a b} "PNG Language Resources endangered languages document". SIL International. http://www.sil.org/pacific/png/endangered/Dumpu.pdf. Retrieved 2009-05-13.