The Bogia languages, also called the Monumbo languages, are spoken in coastal villages around Bogia Bay in Bogia District, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. The family comprises three languages, Monumbo, also called Mambuwan, along with Ngaimbom and Lilau. Some linguists, including William Foley and Matthew Dryer, treat the Bogia languages as a branch of the larger Torricelli language family, though Glottolog notes that no supporting evidence for that classification has been published, even though such comparisons reportedly exist in unpublished form. Unlike most other Torricelli branches, the Bogia languages have subject-object-verb word order, a likely result of contact with neighboring Lower Sepik-Ramu and Sepik languages rather than an inherited trait.
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