| Monumbo | |
|---|---|
| Bogia Bay | |
| Geographic distribution | Bogia Bay,Bogia District,Madang Province,Papua New Guinea |
| Linguistic classification | Torricelli
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| Subdivisions | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | monu1249 |
 The Torricelli languages as classified byFoley (2018) | |
TheMonumbo orBogia Bay languages are a cluster of closely related languages that constitute a branch of theTorricelli language family. They are spoken in a few coastal villages aroundBogia Bay ofBogia District,Madang Province inPapua New Guinea. Unlike all other Torricelli branches except for theMarienberg languages, word order in the Bogia languages is SOV, likely due to contact withLower Sepik-Ramu andSepik languages.[1]: 298
There are three languages:Monumbo (Mambuwan),Ngaimbom andLilau.
They have for several decades been lumped into theTorricelli family 100 km to the west. Foley (2018) and Usher both classify them as Torricelli, based on unpublished comparisons.[1]"No evidence [for this] was ever presented" publicly, according to Glottolog.[2]