Anjam or Bom is a
Madang language
The Madang or Madang–Adelbert Range languages are a language family of Papua New Guinea. They were classified as a branch of Trans–New Guinea by Stephen Wurm, followed by Malcolm Ross. William A. Foley concurs that it is "highly likely" ...
spoken in
Madang Province
Madang is a Provinces of Papua New Guinea, 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 capi ...
,
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n ...
.
Other names include ''Bogadjim'', ''Bogajim'', ''Bogati'', and ''Lalok''. It is spoken in villages such as
Bogadjim Bogadjim is a village on Astrolabe Bay, just south of Madang, in Astrolabe Bay Rural LLG, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. During World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World ...
().
Orthography
Anjam is written in the
Latin script
The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greek city of Cumae in Magna Graecia. The Gree ...
.
[ The alphabet has 22 letters.][
]
References
External links
Anjam Organised Phonology DataField research on the Anjam language at SIL InternationalRosetta Project: Anjam Swadesh listNew Testament in Anjam
Mindjim languages
Languages of Madang Province
{{Madang-lang-stub