Barem language explained

Barem language should not be confused with Bunaban languages.

Barem
Nativename:	Bunabun
Also Known As:	Kambuar
States:	Papua New Guinea
Region:	Sumgilbar Rural LLG, Madang Province
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.^[1]

Dialects

Barem dialects are:^{[2] [1]}

• Qkuan Kambuar (severely endangered, with only a few speakers around the Dibor River and in Tokain village (-4.7156°N 145.634°W), a Waskia-speaking town)
• Kimbu Kambuar (extinct)
• Murukanam Barem, spoken in Murukanam village north of the Dibor river (-4.6287°N 145.5642°W)
• Asumbin, spoken in Asumbin village, Bunbun ward north and inland from Gildipasi (-4.6109°N 145.4949°W)
• Bunabun (spoken north of the Dibor River near the coast, including in Bunabun (-4.5932°N 145.5325°W))

External links

• Qkuan Kambuar recordings
• Additional Qkuan Kambuar recordings

Notes and References

1. PhD dissertation . Pick . Andrew . 2020 . A reconstruction of Proto-Northern Adelbert phonology and lexicon . University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa .
2. Pick . Andrew . 2019 . Gildipasi language project: tumbuna stories and tumbuna knowledge . Endangered Languages Archive at SOAS, University of London.