Bamu language
Bamu | |
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Native to | Papua New Guinea |
Region | Bamu River |
Native speakers | 5,400; 6,300 with Gama (2000 census)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
bcf (with Gama) |
Glottolog |
bamu1257 [2] |
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
- ↑ Bamu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Bamu". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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