Sam language

Sam
Songum
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Madang Province
Native speakers
780 (2000 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 snx
Glottolog samm1244[2]

Sam, or Songum, is a Rai Coast language spoken in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea.

'Sam' is the word for 'language'. 'Songum' is a village name.

References

  1. Sam at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Sam". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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