Boiken language

Boiken
Boiken
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Sepik River basin
Native speakers	31,000 (2003)
Language family	Sepik Middle Sepik Ndu Boiken; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bzf
Glottolog	boik1241
ELP	Boiken

Boiken (Nucum, Yangoru) is one of the more populous of the Ndu languages of Sepik River region of northern Papua New Guinea. It is spoken around Boiken Creek in Yangoru-Saussia District, East Sepik Province and adjacent islands off the north coast of northern Papua New Guinea.^[2]

References[]

^ Boiken 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.

External links[]

Paradisec houses two collections of Arthur Capell's materials that include Boiken (AC1 and AC2) as well as notes from Don Laycock's work (DL2) all of these collections are open access.

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[e18-1] Boiken 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.

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