Native to Papua New Guinea ISO 639-3 bcf (with Gama) | Region Bamu River Glottolog bamu1257 | |
Native speakers 5,400; 6,300 with Gama (2000 census) Language family Trans–New Guinea ?
Kiwai–Porome
Kiwaian
Bamu | ||
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.
References
Bamu language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA