Bamu language

Bamu
Bamu
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Bamu River
Native speakers	5,400; 6,300 with Gama (2000 census)
Language family	Kiwaian Bamu;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bcf (with Gama)
Glottolog	bamu1257

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]

Gama
Lower Bamu
Sisiame (8°06′18″S 143°34′14″E / 8.104866°S 143.570587°E / -8.104866; 143.570587 (Sisiami No. 1))^[3]
Upper Bamu (Middle Bamu)
Nuhiro

References[]

^ Bamu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
^ 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.
^ United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.

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[e18-1] Bamu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Ethnologue22-PNG-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.

[UN-PNG-3] United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.

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