Wiarumus, a.k.a. Mandi, is a Torricelli language of

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, spoken in a village of just under 500. Only those villagers born before ca. 1940 can speak it. It is spoken in the Mandi village (), Turubu Rural LLG,

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* Paradisec has two open access collections that include Wiarumus language materials; the first is Don Laycock's
DL2
, the second is William Foley's
WF3

References

Marienberg languages Languages of East Sepik Province Endangered Papuan languages {{papuan-lang-stub