| Bamu | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Bamu River |
Native speakers | 5,400; 6,300 with Gama (2000 census)[1] |
Kiwaian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bcf (with Gama) |
| Glottolog | bamu1257 |
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.
- ^ Bamu at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
