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Bongu language

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Bongu
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionMadang Province
Native speakers
850 (2000 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3bpu
Glottologbong1291

Bongu is a Madang language spoken in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea.

Examples of words

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Russian loan words

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Unlike other indigenous languages of Oceania, the Bongu language has several loan words from Russian.[2]

Bongu English Russian
arbuz watermelon арбуз
kukuruza corn кукуруза
topor axe топор

References

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  1. ^ Bongu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ "Russian Loan Words in the Indigenous Languages of Papua New Guinea".