The Monumbo or Bogia Bay languages are a cluster of closely related languages that constitute a branch of the

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language family. They are spoken in a few coastal villages around Bogia Bay of Bogia District,

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. 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 language family, family of some 50 Papuan languages spoken in the Sepik River, Sepik river basin of northern Papua New Guinea, proposed by Donald Laycock in 1965 in a somewhat more limited form than prese ...

. There are three languages: Monumbo (Mambuwan), Ngaimbom and Lilau.

Classification

They have for several decades been lumped into the

family 100 km to the west. Foley (2018) and Usher both classify them as Torricelli, based on unpublished comparisons. "No evidence or thiswas ever presented" publicly, according to Glottolog.Glottolog: Monumbo
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References

{{Torricelli languages Sepik Coast languages Languages of Madang Province