Bamu language

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:

• Gama
• Lower Bamu
• Sisiame ()
• Upper Bamu (Middle Bamu)
• Nuhiro

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