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Piame language
Sepik language of Papua New Guinea From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Piame, or Biami, is a Sepik language, which in 1988 was spoken in the village of Piame in northwestern Papua New Guinea.[2]: 249
Relationship to other languages
Piame is closely related to Niksek, with cognate percentages ranging from 44% to 53% for the different Niksek dialects.[2]: 249
Sociolinguistics
In 1988, it was spoken by less than a hundred people, in the single village of Piame.[2]: 249 The village was primarily monolingual. Two or three men had begun to learn Tok Pisin, the lingua franca of Papua New Guinea.[2]: 254
Vocabulary
The table below is a sample of words in Piame:[2]: 261
References
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