Bungain
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionEast Sepik Province
Native speakers
3,600, including Forok (2003)[1]
Torricelli
Language codes
ISO 639-3but
Glottologbung1270
ELPBungain
Coordinates: 3°39′41″S 143°48′00″E / 3.661359°S 143.800008°E / -3.661359; 143.800008 (Bungain)

Bungain is a Torricelli language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Bungain village (3°39′41″S 143°48′00″E / 3.661359°S 143.800008°E / -3.661359; 143.800008 (Bungain)) of Turubu Rural LLG, East Sepik Province.[1][2]

The Forok "dialect" is a distinct language.

References

  1. 1 2 Bungain at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
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