Sam language

Sam
Songum
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Madang Province
Native speakers
 780  (2000 census)[1]
Trans–New Guinea
Language codes
ISO 639-3 snx
Glottolog samm1244[2]

Sam, or Songum, is a Rai Coast language spoken in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea.

'Sam' is the word for 'language'. 'Songum' is a village name.

References

  1. ↑ Sam at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Sam". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.