Nambu language

Nambu
Region New Guinea
Native speakers
 3,000  (2000–2003)[1]
Trans-Fly – Bulaka River?
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
nmx – Nama
nkm – Namat
ncm – Nambo
mxw – Namo (Dorro)
nex – Neme
nqn – Nen
Glottolog namb1292[2]

Nambu is a Papuan dialect cluster of Papua New Guinea. Dialects are distinct but mutually intelligible.[3] However, Ethnologue lists them as separate languages, because speakers prefer individualized literacy materials.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Nama at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Namat at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Nambo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Namo (Dorro) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Neme at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Nen at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Nambu". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ↑ Michael J. Rueck, 2011. Social Network Analysis Applied to Language Planning in the Morehead District, Papua New Guinea