Pom language

{{Short description|Language in Papua}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Pom

|nativename=

|states=Indonesia

|region=Miosnum Island,
Cenderawasih Bay

|speakers=2,000

|date=1987

|ref = e18

|familycolor=Austronesian

|fam2=Malayo-Polynesian

|fam3=Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian

|fam4=Eastern Malayo-Polynesian

|fam5=South Halmahera–West New Guinea

|fam6=Cenderawasih Bay

|fam7=Yapen

|fam8=Central–Western

|fam9=Central

|iso3=pmo

|glotto=pomm1237

|glottorefname=Pom

}}

Pom is an Eastern Malayo-Polynesian language spoken on Miosnum Island in Cenderawasih Bay west of Serui Island, in Papua Province of Western New Guinea, northeastern Indonesia. It has around 2000 speakers. This wordlist was recorded by Emily Gasser with Pom speakers Yanselt Borotabui, Spenyei Awendu, Frengky Mantundoi, Frence Kapitaray, and Memase Kadwaru on the Unipa campus in Manokwari in June/July 2016.{{Cite web |title=About the Pom Dictionary |url=http://talkingdictionary.swarthmore.edu/pom/about/ |access-date=2023-03-16 |website=talkingdictionary.swarthmore.edu}}