Spoken L1 Language: Bumbita Arapesh

Comments on subclassification

Otto Nekitel 1985: 39

AES status:
shifting
Source:
Campbell, Lyle and Lee, Nala Huiying and Okura, Eve and Simpson, Sean and Ueki, Kaori 2022
Comment:
Bumbita (2046-aon) = Endangered (60 percent certain, based on the evidence available) (Middle-aged and older speakers use the language, but except for two villages, younger people mainly use Tok Pisin, the national language of Papua New Guinea.)

(see Wurm 2007)

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