Bamu, or Bamu Kiwai, is a

Papuan language The Papuan languages are the non-Austronesian and non- Australian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands, by around 4 million people. It is a strictly geogra ...

of southern

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 ...

. A thousand speakers of ''Gama'' are included in the ISO code for Bamu. However, '' Ethnologue'' notes that lexical similarity is below 80% with the most similar dialect of Bamu proper.

Dialects

Dialects are: *Gama *Lower Bamu *Sisiame () *Upper Bamu (Middle Bamu) *Nuhiro

References

Kiwaian languages Languages of Western Province (Papua New Guinea) {{PapuaNewGuinea-stub