Omati, or Mini, is a

Papuan language The Papuan languages are the non-Austronesian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands in Indonesia, Solomon Islands, and East Timor. It is a strictly geographical grouping, and does not imply a ...

spoken in the

Omati River The Omati River is a river in southern Papua New Guinea. Omati Riverin Geonames.org (cc-by) post updated 2012-01-17; database downloaded 2015-06-22 See also *List of rivers of Papua New Guinea *List of rivers of Oceania *Southern New Guinea fres ...

area of

Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n ...

. The two varieties, Barikewa and Mouwase, are quite divergent.

References

Turama–Kikorian languages Languages of Papua New Guinea {{papuan-lang-stub