Brem language
Brem (Barem), also known as Bunabun (Bububun, Bunubun), is a Papuan language of Sumgilbar Rural LLG, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea.
| Brem | |
|---|---|
| Kambuar | |
| Bunabun | |
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Sumgilbar Rural LLG, Madang Province |
Native speakers | 1,200 (2003)[1] |
Trans–New Guinea?
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | buq |
| Glottolog | brem1238[2] |
Barem dialects are:[3]
- Qkuan Kambuar (severely endangered)
- Kimbu Kambuar (extinct)
- Murukanam Barem, spoken in Murukanam village north of the Dibor river (4.628687°S 145.564185°E)
- Asumbin, spoken in Asumbin village, Bunbun ward north and inland from Gildipasi (4.610883°S 145.494897°E)
References
- Brem at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Brem". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- 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.
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