Piame language
Piame, or Biami, is a Sepik language, which in 1988 was spoken in the village of Piame in northwestern Papua New Guinea.
Relationship to other languages
Piame is closely related to Niksek, with cognate percentages ranging from 44% to 53% for the different Niksek dialects.
Sociolinguistics
In 1988, it was spoken by less than a hundred people, in the single village of Piame. The village was primarily monolingual. Two or three men had begun to learn Tok Pisin, the lingua franca of Papua New Guinea.
The language is today described as moribund.
Vocabulary
The table below is a sample of words in Piame: