Ouma language

{{short description|Extinct language formerly spoken in Papua New Guinea}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Ouma

|states=Papua New Guinea

|region=Central Province

|extinct=Late 1980s

|ref=e25

|familycolor=Austronesian

|fam2=Malayo-Polynesian

|fam3=Oceanic

|fam4=Western Oceanic

|fam5=Papuan Tip

|fam6=Central

|fam7=Oumic

|iso3=oum

|glotto=ouma1237

|glottorefname=Ouma

}}

Ouma is an extinct Austronesian language of Papua New Guinea. It was restructured through contact with neighboring Papuan languages, and it turn influencing them, before speakers shifted to those languages.{{citation needed|reason=UNESCO Atlas lists it as critically endangered but not extinct.|date=March 2023}}