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:^[1]

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))^[2]
Upper Bamu (Middle Bamu)
Nuhiro

References

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

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[e25-1] Bamu at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)

[UN-PNG-2] United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.

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