Sissano language

{{Short description|Oceanic language spoken in Papua New Guinea}}

{{distinguish|Arop-Sissano language}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Sissano

|region=West Aitape Rural LLG, Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea

|ethnicity=

|speakers=300

|date=2000

|ref=e18

|familycolor=Austronesian

|fam2=Malayo-Polynesian

|fam3=Oceanic

|fam4=Western

|fam5=Schouten

|fam6=Siau

|script=Latin

|map2 = Lang Status 20-CR.svg

|mapcaption2 = {{center|{{small|Sissano is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger}}}}

|iso3=sso

|glotto=siss1243

|glottorefname=Sissano

|notice=IPA

}}

Sissano is an Austronesian language spoken by at most a few hundred people around Sissano in West Aitape Rural LLG, Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea.{{cite web |url=https://www.ethnologue.com/country/PG/languages |title=Papua New Guinea languages |work=Ethnologue: Languages of the World |edition=22nd |editor1-last=Eberhard |editor1-first=David M. |editor2-last=Simons |editor2-first=Gary F. |editor3-last=Fennig |editor3-first=Charles D. |date=2019 |location=Dallas |publisher=SIL International}} 4,800 speakers were reported in 1990, but the 1998 tsunami wiped out most of the population.