Niwer Mil language

{{Short description|Austronesian language}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Niwer Mil

| states = Papua New Guinea

| region = Boang, Malendok, Lif and Tefa, Tanga Islands

| speakers = 9,033

| date = 2011 census

| familycolor = Austronesian

| fam2 = Malayo-Polynesian

| fam3 = Oceanic

| fam4 = Western Oceanic

| fam5 = Meso-Melanesian

| fam6 = St. George

| iso3 = hrc

| glotto = niwe1234

}}

The Niwer Mil language is spoken by 9,033 people2011 PNG Census on Boang Island, Malendok Island, Lif Island and Tefa Island in the Tanga Islands, Namatanai District of New Ireland Province in Papua New Guinea. It was split from the Tangga language in 2013. It is one of the languages that form the St George linkage group of Meso-Melanesian languages.Lynch, John; Malcolm Ross; Terry Crowley (2002). The Oceanic languages. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon. {{ISBN|9780700711284}}. OCLC 48929366Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Meso-Melanesian linkage". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.Niwer Mil (Tanga Island) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)