Pamosu language

Pamosu
Pamosu
Hinihon
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Madang Province
Native speakers	1,800 (2012)
Language family	Trans–New Guinea? Madang Croisilles NW Adelbert Range Tiboran Upper Pamosu; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	hih
Glottolog	pamo1253

Last updated January 02, 2026

Pamosu is a Papuan language of Madang Province, Papua New Guinea.^[2] Some of the older generations speak Pal, a related language.^[1] It has been documented by Andrew Pick.^[3]

Pamosu grammar has been documented in Tupper (2012).^[4]

References

1 2 Pamosu at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
↑ 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.
↑ Tupper, Ian. 2012. A Grammar of Pamosu. Doctoral dissertation. La Trobe University.

Sources

Tupper, Ian D. (2012). A grammar of Pamosu (Ph.D. thesis). La Trobe University. hdl: 1959.9/565301 .

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[e25-1] 1 2 Pamosu at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)

[Pick_2020-2] 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.

[3] Pick, Andrew (2019). "Gildipasi language project: tumbuna stories and tumbuna knowledge". Endangered Languages Archive at SOAS, University of London.

[4] Tupper, Ian. 2012. A Grammar of Pamosu. Doctoral dissertation. La Trobe University.

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