Ouma is an extinct
Austronesian language of
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ...
. It was restructured through contact with neighboring
Papuan languages, and it turn influencing them, before speakers shifted to those languages.
See also
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Magori language
Magori is a nearly extinct Austronesian language of Papua New Guinea that has been strongly restructured through contact with neighboring Papuan languages, perhaps Mailu, which the Magori people speak fluently today. The restructuring was so ext ...
, a similar situation
References
Central Papuan Tip languages
Languages of Central Province (Papua New Guinea)
Extinct languages of Oceania
Languages extinct in the 1990s
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