Bumbita language

Bumbita
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region East Sepik Province
Ethnicity spoken by 40–50% (2003?)[1]
Native speakers
4,300 (2003)[2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 aon
Glottolog bumb1241[3]

Bumbita (But Arapesh) is an Arapesh language (Torricelli) of Papua New Guinea spoken mainly by older adults, unlike other Arapesh languages. Dialects are Bonahoi, Urita, Timingir, Weril, Werir.

References

  1. Bumbita language at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
  2. Bumbita at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  3. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Bumbita Arapesh". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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