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Monumbo languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

The Monumbo, or Bogia Bay, languages are a cluster of closely related languages forming a branch of the Torricelli family, spoken in Bogia Bay, Bogia District, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. The cluster comprises three languages, Monumbo, also called Mambuwan, Ngaimbom and Lilau, and is unusual among Torricelli branches, along with the neighboring Marienberg languages, for having SOV word order.

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