Cuman ( Chimbu, Kuman, Simbu ) is a Papuan language spoken by the Cuman and Genagan peoples in the Ming sub-province of Western Highlands in northern Simbu in Papua New Guinea .
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| Countries |  Papua New Guinea |
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| Regions | Simbu |
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| Total number of speakers | 115,000 (2000) |
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- trans-Guinean languages
- Simbu Wahgi languages
- simbu languages
- cuman
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| Writing | latin |
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| ISO 639-1 | - |
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| ISO 639-2 | - |
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| ISO 639-3 | kue |
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Kuman has dialects of yongomugl, nagane (genagan, genogan), kuman.
The Cuman language uses the Latin afavite [1] .
| A a | B b | Mb mb | D d | Nd nd | E e | G g | Ng ng | I i | K k | L l |
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| / a / | / b / | / b / | / d / | / d / | / e / | / g / | / g / | / i / | / k / | / l / |
| M m | N n | O o | P p | R r | S s | T t | U u | W w | Y y | Gl gl |
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| / m / | / n / | / o / | / p / | / ɾ / | / s / | / t / | / u / | / w / | / j / | / ʟ / |
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- The diphthongs in the letter are transmitted in two letters for vowels: iu [iu], ui [ui], au [au], ou [ou], ei [ei], ai [ai], oi [oi], eu [eu].
Papua New Guinea