Biem language

Biem
	Bam
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	East Sepik Province
Native speakers	2,200 (2000 census)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Oceanic Schouten Kairiru–Manam Manam Biem; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bmc
Glottolog	biem1237

Biem, or Bam, is an Oceanic language of northeast New Guinea, spoken on Bam, Blup Blup, Kadovar, and Vial (also known as Wei) islands (eastern 4 of the Schouten Islands) off the coast of Wewak.[2]

Schouten Islands in Papua New Guinea

References

Biem at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Papua New Guinea languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.

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