| Waima | |
| Region: | Eastern New Guinea |
| Speakers: | 15,000 |
| Date: | 2000 census |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | Austronesian |
| Fam3: | Oceanic |
| Fam4: | Western Oceanic |
| Fam5: | Papuan Tip |
| Fam6: | Central Papuan Tip |
| Fam7: | West Central |
| Fam8: | Nuclear West Central |
| Iso3: | rro |
| Glotto: | waim1251 |
| Glottorefname: | Waima |
The Waima language (sometimes known as Roro, though this is strictly the name of one dialect of Waima) is a Nuclear West Central Papuan Tip language of the Oceanic group of Malayo-Polynesian languages, spoken in Papua New Guinea by 15,000 people. The three dialects, Waima, Roro, and Paitana, are very close.[1]
| Labial | Alveolar | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| Plosive | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |
| Fricative | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| Rhotic | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| Approximant | pronounced as /link/ |
| Front | Central | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| Mid | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| Low | pronounced as /link/ |