Wampar

The Wampar are an Austronesian-speaking people of the Markham Valley in Morobe Province, in the Bird's Tail of New Guinea. Their speech, Wampar or Dzob Wampar, is a Lower Markham language of the Huon Gulf group, spoken in villages across the Wampar plains inland from the gulf.

Unusually for Western Oceanic languages, which are otherwise confined to the coast, the Markham languages were carried into the interior valleys, where the Wampar and their relatives live in close contact with Trans–New Guinea peoples of the surrounding mountains.