Monumbo languages

Monumbo

Bogia Bay
Geographic
distribution| Bogia District, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea
Linguistic classification| Torricelli or a possible primary language family
Subdivisions|

* Monumbo
* Lilau

Glottolog| monu1249[1]

The Torricelli languages as classified by Foley (2018)

The Monumbo or Bogia languages are a pair of closely related languages that constitute a branch of the Torricelli language family. They are spoken in a few coastal villages of Bogia District, Madang Province in Papua New Guinea. 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.[2]: 298

There are two languages,

Monumbo (Mambuwan) and Lilau

## Classification

They have for several decades been lumped into the Torricelli family 100 km to the west, but "no evidence [for this] was ever presented" according to Glottolog.[3] Foley (2018) classifies the Monumbo languages as Torricelli.[2]

## References

1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Bogia". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/monu1249.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Foley, William A. (2018). "The Languages of the Sepik-Ramu Basin and Environs". in Palmer, Bill. The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 197-432. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.
3. ↑ Glottolog: Monumbo

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