The Monumbo or Bogia Bay languages are a pair 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
Madang is a province of Papua New Guinea. The province is on the northern coast of mainland Papua New Guinea and has many of the country's highest peaks, active volcanoes and its biggest mix of languages. The capital is the town of Madang.
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Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ...
. 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
The Sepik or Sepik River languages are a family of some 50 Papuan languages spoken in the Sepik river basin of northern Papua New Guinea, proposed by Donald Laycock in 1965 in a somewhat more limited form than presented here. They tend to ha ...
.
There are two languages,
:
Monumbo (Mambuwan) and
Lilau
Classification
They have for several decades been lumped into the
Torricelli family 100 km to the west, but "no evidence
or thiswas ever presented" according to Glottolog.
Glottolog: Monumbo
/ref> Foley (2018) classifies the Monumbo languages as Torricelli.
References
{{Torricelli languages
Sepik Coast languages
Languages of Madang Province