Bumbita language
| Bumbita | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | East Sepik Province |
| Ethnicity | spoken by 40–50% (2003?)[1] |
Native speakers | 4,300 (2003)[2] |
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Torricelli
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
aon |
| Glottolog |
bumb1241[3] |
Bumbita (But Arapesh) is an Arapesh language (Torricelli) of Papua New Guinea spoken mainly by older adults, unlike other Arapesh languages. Dialects are Bonahoi, Urita, Timingir, Weril, Werir.
References
- ↑ Bumbita language at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
- ↑ Bumbita at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Bumbita Arapesh". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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