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Bamu language

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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

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

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Dialects are:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Bamu at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.