Bumbita Arapesh language

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Bumbita Arapesh is a Papuan language of the Arapesh group spoken in the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea.

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instanceOf Arapesh language
Papuan language
natural language
continent Oceania
country Papua New Guinea
documentedIn linguistic surveys of Papuan languages
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicity Arapesh people NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Arapesh, Bumbita NERFINISHED
Bumbita NERFINISHED
hasDialects several village-based dialects
hasGlottocode bumb1241
hasLinguisticArea Sepik linguistic area NERFINISHED
hasMorphologicalFeature agreement marking on verbs
rich noun morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive tone not used
hasSyntacticFeature basic SOV word order
ISO639-3 aon
languageFamily Torricelli language family NERFINISHED
languageGroup Arapesh group NERFINISHED
neighboringLanguages English NERFINISHED
Tok Pisin NERFINISHED
other Arapesh languages
region northern Papua New Guinea
spokenBy several thousand speakers
spokenIn East Sepik Province NERFINISHED
Papua New Guinea NERFINISHED
subfamilyOf Arapesh languages NERFINISHED
usedFor everyday communication in local communities
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Arapesh speaks Bumbita Arapesh language