Biem language
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected from Blublup language)
Oceanic language spoken in New Guinea
Not to be confused with Bam language (disambiguation).
| Biem | |
|---|---|
| Bam | |
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | East Sepik Province |
Native speakers | 2,200 (2000 census)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bmc |
| Glottolog | biem1237 |
_Topography.png)
Biem, or Bam, is an Oceanic language of northeast New Guinea, spoken on Bam, Blup Blup, Kadovar, and Vial (also known as Wei) islands (eastern four of the Schouten Islands) off the coast of Wewak.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Biem at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Papua New Guinea languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
| Sarmi–Jayapura | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schouten |
| ||||||||||||||||||
| Huon Gulf |
| ||||||||||||||||||
| Ngero–Vitiaz |
| ||||||||||||||||||
| Official languages | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Major Indigenous languages |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other Papuan languages |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sign languages | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This article about North New Guinea languages is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |