Anjam language

Anjam or Bom is a Madang language spoken in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea.

Anjam
Bom
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionMadang Province
Native speakers
2,000 (2003)[1]
Trans–New Guinea?
Language codes
ISO 639-3boj
Glottologanja1238[2]

Other names include Bogadjim, Bogajim, Bogati, and Lalok. It is spoken in villages such as Bogadjim (5.456579°S 145.736607°E / -5.456579; 145.736607 (Bom (Bugajim))).

Orthography

Anjam is written in the Latin script.[3] The alphabet has 22 letters.[3]

[3]
Letters (uppercase)ABDEGIJKLMNÑŊOPQRSTUWY
Letters (lowercase)abdegijklmnñŋopqrstuwy
IPA/ɑ//b//d//e//g//i////k//l//m//n//ɲ//ŋ//o//p//q//r//s//t//u//w//j/
gollark: What about pet stone blocks?
gollark: Bonus: carrier pigeon compatibility.
gollark: Actually, just backup to sheets of paper with base64 written on them.
gollark: You should backup to punch cards!
gollark: Tape backups?

References

  1. Anjam at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Anjam". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. "Organised Phonology Data" (PDF). SIL International. Retrieved April 3, 2018.



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