| Barem | |
|---|---|
| Kambuar | |
| Bunabun | |
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Sumgilbar Rural LLG, Madang Province |
Native speakers | 1,200 (2003)[1] |
Trans–New Guinea?
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | buq |
| Glottolog | brem1238 |
Barem (Brem), also known as Bunabun (Bububun, Bunubun), is a Papuan language of Sumgilbar Rural LLG, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea.[2]
Dialects
Barem dialects are:[3][2]: 42–43
- Qkuan Kambuar (severely endangered, with only a few speakers around the Dibor River and in Tokain village (4°42′56″S 145°38′02″E / 4.715575°S 145.633995°E), a Waskia-speaking town)
- Kimbu Kambuar (extinct)
- Murukanam Barem, spoken in Murukanam village north of the Dibor river (4°37′43″S 145°33′51″E / 4.628687°S 145.564185°E)
- Asumbin, spoken in Asumbin village, Bunbun ward north and inland from Gildipasi (4°36′39″S 145°29′42″E / 4.610883°S 145.494897°E)
- Bunabun (spoken north of the Dibor River near the coast, including in Bunabun (4°35′36″S 145°31′57″E / 4.593247°S 145.532458°E))
References
- ↑ Barem at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- 1 2 Pick, Andrew (2020). A reconstruction of Proto-Northern Adelbert phonology and lexicon (PDF) (PhD dissertation). University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
- ↑ Pick, Andrew (2019). "Gildipasi language project: tumbuna stories and tumbuna knowledge". Endangered Languages Archive at SOAS, University of London.
- Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". In Andrew Pawley; Robert Attenborough; Robin Hide; Jack Golson (eds.). Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 15–66. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782.
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