Kambot language

Kambot
Ap Ma
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionEast Sepik Province
Native speakers
10,000 (2010)[1]
Ramu–Keram
Dialects
  • Kambaramba
Language codes
ISO 639-3kbx
Glottologapma1241
ELPAp Ma

Kambot a.k.a. Ap Ma (Ap Ma Botin, Botin, also Karaube), is a Keram language of Papua New Guinea. Compared to its nearest relative, Ambakich, Kambot drops the first segment from polysyllabic words.[2]

Kambot is spoken in Kambot village (4°16′54″S 144°08′22″E / 4.281558°S 144.139582°E / -4.281558; 144.139582 (Kambot Comm/School)), Keram Rural LLG, East Sepik Province.[3][4]

  1. ^ Kambot at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ "East Keram River - newguineaworld".
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.