Wa’ema

WAG

vigorous

Alternate Names: Waiema

Dialects: None known. Wa’ema seems to be part of a chain of related varieties with Taupota ,. Tawala , not intelligible to Wa’ema. Lexical similarity: 76% with Taupota ,, 69% with Maiwala ,, 54% with Tawala ,.

Genealogy:

Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
Oceanic
Western Oceanic
Papuan Tip
Nuclear
North Papuan Mainland-D’Entrecasteaux
Are-Taupota
Taupota

Demographics: 1,020 (2000 census).

Language Use: Also use English [eng], Hiri Motu [hmo], Tawala [tbo], Wedau [wed].

Language Development: 1 primary school.

Nation of Origin: Papua New Guinea