Bosmun language

Bosman (Bosmun, Bosngun) is a Ramu language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken five villages of Dongan ward, Yawar Rural LLG, Madang Province (4.176323°S 144.648727°E / -4.176323; 144.648727 (Bosmun Comm. Sch)).[3][4]

Bosman
Bosngun
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionMadang Province (5 villages)
Native speakers
1,300 (2004)[1]
Ramu
Language codes
ISO 639-3bqs
Glottologbosn1248[2]
Coordinates: 4.176323°S 144.648727°E / -4.176323; 144.648727 (Bosmun Comm. Sch)

Like Watam, it shares a number of irregular plural markers with the Lower Sepik languages, supporting the proposal of a Ramu – Lower Sepik language family.

References
  1. Bosman at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Bosngun". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Papua New Guinea languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
  4. United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
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