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Bamu language

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Bamu
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionBamu River
Native speakers
5,400; 6,300 with Gama (2000 census)[1]
Kiwaian
  • Bamu
Language codes
ISO 639-3bcf (with Gama)
Glottologbamu1257

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

Dialects are:[2]

References

  1. ^ Bamu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Papua New Guinea languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
  3. ^ United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.