Wahgi language

Wahgi
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionWestern Highlands Province
Native speakers
(86,000 cited 1999)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
wgi – Mid-Wahgi
whg – North Wahgi
Glottolognucl1620  Nuclear Wahgi
nort2921  North Wahgi

Wahgi is a Trans–New Guinea language of the Chimbu–Wahgi branch spoken by approximately 100,000 people in the highlands of Papua New Guinea. Like other Chimbu languages, Wahgi has some unusual lateral consonants.

  1. ^ Mid-Wahgi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    North Wahgi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)