Wipi, also known as Gidra, Jibu or Oriomo, is a Papuan language of

New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; id, Papua, or , historically ) is the world's second-largest island with an area of . Located in Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is separated from Australia by the wide Torr ...

. It is a member of the Eastern Trans-Fly family, the other languages of this family being Gizrra,

Meriam Mir Meriam ( ulk, Meriam Mìr; also ''Miriam, Meryam, Mer, Mir, Miriam-Mir'', etc. and ''Eastern, Isten, Esten'' and ''Able Able'') or the Eastern Torres Strait language is the language of the people of the small islands of ''Mer'' ( Murray Island ...

and Bine. The family has influenced the neighbouring Kiwai language as well as

Kalau Lagau Ya ''Kalau Lagau Ya'', ''Kalaw Lagaw Ya'', ''Kala Lagaw Ya'' (), or the ''Western Torres Strait language'' (also several other names, see below), is the language indigenous to the central and western Torres Strait Islands, Queensland, Australia. O ...

Distribution

Wipi is spoken in fourteen main villages, with the Wipim village as the centre. Wipi speakers occupy a broad swathe of inland territory in the eastern plains between the

Fly River The Fly River is the third longest river in the island of New Guinea, after the Sepik River and Mamberamo River, with a total length of and the largest by volume of discharge in Oceania, the largest in the world without a single dam in its cat ...

and the Torres Strait, specifically around the Oriomo River and Binaturi River.

Phonology

Phonology of the Wipi language:

Consonants

Vowels

References

Eastern Trans-Fly languages Languages of Western Province (Papua New Guinea) {{Papuan-lang-stub