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This page is a list of districts of Papua New Guinea.
The Monumbo or Bogia Bay languages are a pair of closely related languages that constitute a branch of the Torricelli language family. They are spoken in a few coastal villages around Bogia Bay of Bogia District, Madang Province in Papua New Guinea. Unlike all other Torricelli branches except for the Marienberg languages, word order in the Bogia languages is SOV, likely due to contact with Lower Sepik-Ramu and Sepik languages.
Bogia District is a district in the north-west of Madang Province in Papua New Guinea. It is one of the six administrative districts that make up the province.
Nend (Nent), or Angaua, is a Papuan language spoken by the Angaua people of Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Pasinkap village of Arabaka Rural LLG, Madang Province.
Siroi (Suroi) is a Rai Coast language spoken in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, and a local trade language. It is spoken in Kumisanger village, Astrolabe Bay Rural LLG, Madang Province.
Aruamu a.k.a. Mikarew, also Ariawiai (Mikarew-Ariaw), is a Ramu language spoken in Mikarew village of Yawar Rural LLG, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea.
Mbore a.k.a. Gamei (Gamai) is a Lower Ramu language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in the villages of Gamei and Boroi in Yawar Rural LLG, Bogia District, Madang Province.
Lilau is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea, closely related to Monumbo. It is spoken in Lilau ward, Almami Rural LLG, Bogia District, Madang Province.
Bosman is a Ramu language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken five villages of Dongan ward, Yawar Rural LLG, Madang Province.
Marangis a.k.a. Watam is a Ramu language of Papua New Guinea. Like Bosmun, it shares a number of irregular plural markers with the Lower Sepik languages, supporting the proposal of a Ramu – Lower Sepik language family.
Kire (Giri) is a Ramu language of Giri village in Yawar Rural LLG, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea.
Yawar is a coastal village in Yawar Rural LLG, Bogia District, Madang Province, northern Papua New Guinea. It is the principal settlement of Yawar Rural LLG. The village lies on the Stephan Strait along the North Coast Highway. Offshore is Laing Island, a small island, and further to the north-east across the strait is the island of Manam. A church was documented in the village in the 1980s.
Kaian (Kayan) is a Ramu language of Kaian village in Yawar Rural LLG, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea.
Awar is a Ramu language spoken in three villages in Yawar Rural LLG, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea.
Akrukay is a Ramu language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in the two villages of Akrurai and Andamang in Akrurai ward, Arabaka Rural LLG, Madang Province.
Mand, or Atemble, is a Papuan language of Madang Province, Papua New Guinea.
Ronji is a minor Austronesian languages of northern Papua New Guinea.
Saidor is a village located in Saidor ward of Rai Coast Rural LLG, Madang Province, on the north coast of Papua New Guinea.
Yawar Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Madang Province, Papua New Guinea.
Yamben (Yaben) is a Trans–New Guinea language of Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. It was first documented by Andrew Pick in the 2010s and classified by Pick (2019) as a probable primary branch of Madang, though its precise classification is still pending further research. Although surrounded by Croisilles languages, Yamben is not one of them.
References
- 1 2 Gorovu at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ↑ United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
