Bosmun language

Bosman
Bosngun
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionMadang Province (5 villages)
Native speakers
1,300 (2004)[1]
Ramu
Language codes
ISO 639-3bqs
Glottologbosn1248
ELPBosmun
Coordinates: 4°10′35″S 144°38′55″E / 4.176323°S 144.648727°E / -4.176323; 144.648727 (Bosmun Comm. Sch)

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°10′35″S 144°38′55″E / 4.176323°S 144.648727°E / -4.176323; 144.648727 (Bosmun Comm. Sch)).[2][3]

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

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  1. ^ Bosman at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
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