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3-581: Watiwa is a Rai Coast language of Papua New Guinea . It is spoken by some 500 people living in six villages in Madang Province , Papua New Guinea , including Bebei ( 5°51′43″S 145°42′43″E / 5.861935°S 145.711953°E / -5.861935; 145.711953 ( Bembe ) ) and Dumpu ( 5°53′20″S 145°44′10″E / 5.888972°S 145.736011°E / -5.888972; 145.736011 ( Dumpu / Taborabo 1 and 2 ) ) villages of Usino Rural LLG . It
6-565: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Rai Coast languages The Rai Coast languages are a family of languages in the Madang stock of New Guinea. Sidney Herbert Ray identified what was then known of the Rai Coast languages as a unit in 1919. They were linked with the Mabuso languages in 1951 by Arthur Capell in his Madang family. Though the validity of Rai Coast
9-449: Is more commonly known as Dumpu , but this is the name of one of the six villages, and is not accepted as a name for the language. Surviving mostly as a secret language with which to talk amongst themselves when outsiders are present, the majority of the speakers use Tok Pisin in daily life. Due to its increasingly rare use, it is estimated that this language will be extinct in a few decades. This Madang languages -related article
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