Monumbo | |
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Bogia Bay | |
Geographic distribution | Bogia Bay, Bogia District, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea |
Linguistic classification | Torricelli
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Glottolog | monu1249 |
The Torricelli languages as classified by Foley (2018) |
The Monumbo or Bogia Bay languages are a cluster of closely related languages that constitute a branch of the Torricelli language family. They are spoken in a few coastal villages around Bogia Bay of Bogia District, Madang Province in Papua New Guinea. Unlike all other Torricelli branches except for the Marienberg languages, word order in the Bogia languages is SOV, likely due to contact with Lower Sepik-Ramu and Sepik languages.[1]: 298
There are three languages: Monumbo (Mambuwan), Ngaimbom and Lilau.