Bamu language

{{Short description|Papuan language of Papua New Guinea}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Bamu

|states=Papua New Guinea

|region=Bamu River

|speakers={{sigfig|5350|2}}; {{sigfig|6310|2}} with Gama

|date=2000 census

|ref=e25

|familycolor=Papuan

|fam1=Kiwaian

|iso3=bcf

|glotto=bamu1257

|glottorefname=Bamu

|iso3comment=(with Gama)

}}

Bamu, or Bamu Kiwai, is a Papuan language of southern Papua New Guinea.

A thousand speakers of Gama are included in the ISO code for Bamu. However, Ethnologue notes that lexical similarity is below 80% with the most similar dialect of Bamu proper.