Mbore language

Language
Mbore
Gamei
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionMadang Province
Native speakers
2,100 (2003)[1]
Language family
Ramu
  • Ramu proper
    • Lower Ramu
      • Ottilien
        • Mbore
Dialects
  • Boroi
  • Borewar
  • Botbot
Language codes
ISO 639-3gai
Glottologbore1247
ELPBorei
Coordinates: 4°03′58″S 144°43′50″E / 4.066061°S 144.730692°E / -4.066061; 144.730692 (Gamei /Kopenarang)

Mbore (Borei, Mborei) a.k.a. Gamei (Gamai) is a Lower Ramu language of Papua New Guinea.[2] It is spoken in the villages of Gamei (4°03′58″S 144°43′50″E / 4.066061°S 144.730692°E / -4.066061; 144.730692 (Gamei/Kopenarang)) and Boroi in Yawar Rural LLG, Bogia District, Madang Province.[3][4]

Its closest relatives are the Watam and Kaian languages, both of which lie upriver from Kopar, a village situated at the mouth of the Sepik River.[5]

References

  1. ^ Mbore at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Thomas, David D. (1973). "A tentative decimal classification for New Guinea languages". Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota. 17 (19): 151. doi:10.31356/silwp.vol17.19.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
  5. ^ Foley, William A. (6 June 2022). A Sketch Grammar of Kopar. De Gruyter. ISBN 9783110791549.
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