Download coordinates as: Mauwake (Mawake), or Ulingan, is a Papuan language spoken in Almami Rural LLG, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea.

Dialects areas are:[3]: 22 Mauwake speakers generally agree that the language migrated to Madang from further inland; a fact supported by the compacted diversity of the coastal area in particular, as well as by the comparatively minor role in Mauwake culture of fishing, which focuses more on gardening for both food and profit.

[3] The Madang area was strongly affected by the Second World War, when it was occupied by Japanese soldiers and consequently bombed by Allied forces.

At the end of the war, and after contact with both the Japanese and Allied military forces, many Mauwake speakers left to work afield, with broadened horizons.

While in many Papuan languages, [r] and [l] are allophonic, in Mauwake they are contrastive, except for in a few words such as /eliwa/ [eˈliva] ~ [eˈriva] ‘good’, possibly due to dialectal variation.