Barem language

Barem
Kambuar
Bunabun
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionSumgilbar Rural LLG, Madang Province
Native speakers
1,200 (2003)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3buq
Glottologbrem1238

Barem (Brem), also known as Bunabun (Bububun, Bunubun), is a Papuan language of Sumgilbar Rural LLG, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea.[2]

Dialects

Barem dialects are:[3][2]: 42–43 

  • Qkuan Kambuar (severely endangered, with only a few speakers around the Dibor River and in Tokain village (4°42′56″S 145°38′02″E / 4.715575°S 145.633995°E / -4.715575; 145.633995 (Tokain)), a Waskia-speaking town)
  • Kimbu Kambuar (extinct)
  • Murukanam Barem, spoken in Murukanam village north of the Dibor river (4°37′43″S 145°33′51″E / 4.628687°S 145.564185°E / -4.628687; 145.564185 (Murukanam))
  • Asumbin, spoken in Asumbin village, Bunbun ward north and inland from Gildipasi (4°36′39″S 145°29′42″E / 4.610883°S 145.494897°E / -4.610883; 145.494897 (Asumbin))
  • Bunabun (spoken north of the Dibor River near the coast, including in Bunabun (4°35′36″S 145°31′57″E / 4.593247°S 145.532458°E / -4.593247; 145.532458 (Bunabun)))

References

  1. ^ Barem at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ a b Pick, Andrew (2020). A reconstruction of Proto-Northern Adelbert phonology and lexicon (PDF) (PhD dissertation). University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
  3. ^ Pick, Andrew (2019). "Gildipasi language project: tumbuna stories and tumbuna knowledge". Endangered Languages Archive at SOAS, University of London.
  • Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". In Andrew Pawley; Robert Attenborough; Robin Hide; Jack Golson (eds.). Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 15–66. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782.

External links

  • Qkuan Kambuar recordings
  • Additional Qkuan Kambuar recordings


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