Barem language

Barem
Barem
Kambuar
Bunabun
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Sumgilbar Rural LLG, Madang Province
Native speakers	1,200 (2003)
Language family	Trans–New Guinea? Madang Croisilles Isumrud Dimir–Malas Barem; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	buq
Glottolog	brem1238

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

Dialects

Barem dialects are:^: 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)))

↑ Barem at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
1 2 Pick, Andrew (2020). A reconstruction of Proto-Northern Adelbert phonology and lexicon (PDF) (PhD dissertation). University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2023-06-04. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
↑ 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. doi:10.15144/PL-572. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782.

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