Barem language

{{Short description|Isumrud language spoken in Papua New Guinea}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Barem

|nativename=Bunabun

|altname=Kambuar

|states=Papua New Guinea

|region=Sumgilbar Rural LLG, Madang Province

|speakers={{sigfig|1190|2}}

|date=2003

|ref=e18

|familycolor=Papuan

|fam1=Trans–New Guinea?

|fam2=Madang

|fam3=Croisilles

|fam4=Isumrud

|fam5=Dimir–Malas

|iso3=buq

|glotto=brem1238

|glottorefname=Brem

}}

Barem (Brem), also known as Bunabun (Bububun, Bunubun), is a Papuan language of Sumgilbar Rural LLG, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea.{{cite thesis |type=PhD dissertation |last=Pick |first=Andrew |date=2020 |title=A reconstruction of Proto-Northern Adelbert phonology and lexicon |publisher=University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |url=http://ling.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/PickDissertation.pdf}}

Dialects

Barem dialects are:{{cite journal |last=Pick |first=Andrew |date=2019 |title=Gildipasi language project: tumbuna stories and tumbuna knowledge |url=https://elar.soas.ac.uk/Collection/MPI1234836 |work=Endangered Languages Archive at SOAS, University of London}}{{rp|42-43}}

Qkuan Kambuar (severely endangered, with only a few speakers around the Dibor River and in Tokain village ({{coord|-4.715575|145.633995|type:city_region:PG|name=Tokain}}), a Waskia-speaking town)
Kimbu Kambuar (extinct)
Murukanam Barem, spoken in Murukanam village north of the Dibor river ({{coord|-4.628687|145.564185|type:city_region:PG|name=Murukanam}})
Asumbin, spoken in Asumbin village, Bunbun ward north and inland from Gildipasi ({{coord|-4.610883|145.494897|type:city_region:PG|name=Asumbin}})
Bunabun (spoken north of the Dibor River near the coast, including in Bunabun ({{coord|-4.593247|145.532458|type:city_region:PG|name=Bunabun}}))

References

External links

[https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/55951 Qkuan Kambuar recordings]
[https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/55958 Additional Qkuan Kambuar recordings]

Category:Dimir–Malas languages

Category:Languages of Madang Province