| Monumbo | |
|---|---|
| Bogia Bay | |
| Geographic distribution | Bogia Bay, Bogia District, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea |
| Linguistic classification | Torricelli
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| Subdivisions | |
| Glottolog | monu1249 |
 The Torricelli languages as classified by Foley (2018) | |
The MonumboorBogia Bay languages are a cluster of closely related languages that constitute a branch of the Torricelli language family. They are spoken in a few coastal villages around Bogia BayofBogia District, Madang ProvinceinPapua New Guinea. Unlike all other Torricelli branches except for the Marienberg languages, word order in the Bogia languages is SOV, likely due to contact with Lower Sepik-Ramu and Sepik languages.[1]: 298
There are three languages: Monumbo (Mambuwan), Ngaimbom and Lilau.
They have for several decades been lumped into the Torricelli 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 Foley (2018) and Usher both classify them as Torricelli, based on unpublished comparisons.[1] "No evidence [for this] was ever presented" publicly, according to Glottolog.[2]
