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

Bugawac

A language of Papua New Guinea

ISO 639-3: buk

Population  9,690 (1978 K. McElhanon). 40% monolingual.
Region  Morobe Province, Huon Gulf coast.
Language maps  Papua New Guinea, Map 11, reference number 554
Papua New Guinea, Map 15, reference number 554
Alternate names   Bukaua, Bukawa, Bukawac, Kawa, Kawac, Yom Gawac
Dialects  Eastern Bugawac, Central-Eastern Bugawac, Central Bugawac, Central-Western Bugawac, Western Bugawac, South-Western Bugawac. Similar to Yabem [jae].
Classification  Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Western Oceanic, North New Guinea, Huon Gulf, North
Language use  Yabem decreasingly used in religious services, being replaced by Bugawac or Tok Pisin [tpi]. All domains. Also use Yabem or Tok Pisin.
Language development  Literacy rate in L1: 80%. Literacy rate in L2: 80% Tok Pisin, 15%-25% Yabem. In about half the villages. NT: 2001.
Writing system  Latin script.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

ECKERMAN, Diane; ECKERMAN, William, authors. 2000. Bukawa Organised Phonology Data.  Available online