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

Bogaya

A language of Papua New Guinea

ISO 639-3: boq

Population  300 (Wurm and Hattori 1981).
Region  Western Province; base of northern neck of Southern Highlands Province.
Language map  Papua New Guinea, Map 8, reference number 386
Alternate names   Bogaia, Pogaya
Classification  Trans-New Guinea, Duna-Bogaya
Language development  Literacy rate in L1: Below 5%. Literacy rate in L2: Below 5%.

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Academic Publications

STEWART, Pamela J.; STRATHERN, Andrew J., authors. 2010. "The appearing and disappearing world of the Bogaiya: a corner of Papua New Guinea cultural history."  Available online