Bosmun language

Bosman
Bosman
Bosngun
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Madang Province (5 villages)
Native speakers	1,300 (2004)
Language family	Ramu Ramu proper Lower Ramu Ottilien Bosman–Awar Bosman; ; ; ; ;
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 / -4.176323; 144.648727 (Bosmun Comm. Sch)).^[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.

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