Photos • Location
| Bosman | |
|---|---|
| Bosngun | |
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Madang Province (5 villages) |
Native speakers | 1,300 (2004) [1] |
Ramu
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
bqs |
| Glottolog |
bosn1248 |
| ELP | Bosmun |
| Coordinates: 4°10′35″S 144°38′55″E / 4.176323°S 144.648727°E | |
Bosman (Bosmun, Bosngun) is a Ramu language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken five villages of Dongan ward, Yawar Rural LLG, Madang Province ( 4°10′35″S 144°38′55″E / 4.176323°S 144.648727°E). [2] [3]
Like Watam, it shares a number of irregular plural markers with the Lower Sepik languages, supporting the proposal of a Ramu – Lower Sepik language family.
References
- ^ Bosman at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ 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.
- ^ United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.