Papunesia · ISO 639-3 wiu · Glottocode wiru1244
Wiru
Wiru expands the board as a threatened language isolate of Papua New Guinea with a Latin-script assignment.
- Language family
- Language isolate
- Likely script
- Latin (Latn)
- Source status
- threatened
- Macroarea
- Papunesia
- Source country codes
- PG
- Reference point
- -6.359, 144.214
Open research question
Which current primary sources can reliably connect self-designation, local orthography and the transmission situation?
This question is an assignment for later subject and community-proximate source review, not a claim about a uniform cultural worldview.
Scholarly boundary
The map point is a Glottolog reference point, not a language-area boundary. The script field is a likely Unicode CLDR assignment, not a complete history of orthography. Information on endangerment and countries follows the linked source data and does not replace current local assessment.