Tembagla language
Bo-Ung | |
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Tembagla | |
Native to | Papua New Guinea |
Region | Southern Highlands Province |
Native speakers | 41,000 (2000 census)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
mux |
Glottolog |
boun1245 [2] |
Tembagla, also known as Bo-Ung (Mbo-Ung), is one of the languages spoken in the Southern Highlands province of Papua New Guinea. Geographically the people are Kaugel, but their language appears to be closer to the related Medlpa.
Dialects are Ku Waru, Mara-Gomu, Miyemu (Miyem), Tembalo (Tembaglo).
References
- ↑ Bo-Ung at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Bo-Ung". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
External links
- Bowers, Nancy; Lepi, Pundia (1975). "Kaugel Valley systems of reckoning" (PDF). Journal of the Polynesian Society. 84 (3): 309–324.
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