Bamu language

Bamu, or Bamu Kiwai, is a Papuan language of southern Papua New Guinea.

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

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]

  • Gama
  • Lower Bamu
  • Sisiame (8.104866°S 143.570587°E / -8.104866; 143.570587 (Sisiami No. 1))[3]
  • Upper Bamu (Middle Bamu)
  • Nuhiro

References
  1. Bamu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  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.


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