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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]
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.

References

  1. ^ Bamu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)