Dom language

Dom
Dom [ndom˩˥]
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionGumine District and Sinasina District of the Simbu Province
Native speakers
16,000 (2006)[1]
Dialects
  • Era
  • Non Ku
  • Ilai Ku
Language codes
ISO 639-3doa
Glottologdomm1246

Dom is a Trans–New Guinea language of the Eastern Group of the Chimbu family, spoken in the Gumine and Sinasina Districts of Chimbu Province and in some other isolated settlements in the western highlands of Papua New Guinea.[2]

  1. ^ Dom at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Syuntarô 2006, p. 1; 6; 8.