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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Pacific > Papua New Guinea > Beami

Beami

A language of Papua New Guinea

ISO 639-3beo

Population  4,200 (Wurm and Hattori 1981).
Region  Western Province, east of Nomad, into Southern Highlands Province.
Language map  Papua New Guinea, Map 8, reference number 396
Alternate names   Bedamini, Bedamuni, Mougulu
Dialects  Komofio, North Beami.
Classification  Trans-New Guinea, Bosavi
Language development  Literacy rate in L1: 5%–15%. Literacy rate in L2: 15%–25%. NT: 1991.