Bamu language
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| Bamu | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Bamu River |
Native speakers | (5,400; 6,300 with Gama cited 2000 census)[1] |
Kiwaian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bcf (with Gama) |
| Glottolog | bamu1257 |
| ELP | Lua error in Module:Endangered_Languages_Project at line 21: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). |
Bamu, or Bamu Kiwai, is a Papuan language of southern Papua New Guinea.
A thousand speakers of Gama are included in the ISO code for Bamu. However, Ethnologue notes that lexical similarity is below 80% with the most similar dialect of Bamu proper.
Dialects
[edit | edit source]Dialects are:[1]
- Gama
- Lower Bamu
- Sisiame (Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.)[2]
- Upper Bamu (Middle Bamu)
- Nuhiro
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b Bamu at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
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