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Mbore (Borei, Mborei) a.k.a. Gamei (Gamai) is a
Lower Ramu language The Ramu languages are a family of some thirty languages of Northern Papua New Guinea. They were identified as a family by John Z'graggen in 1971 and linked with the Sepik languages by Donald Laycock two years later. Malcolm Ross (2005) classifi ...
of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in the villages of Gamei () and Boroi in Yawar Rural LLG,
Bogia District Bogia District is a district in the north-west of Madang Province in Papua New Guinea. It is one of the six administrative districts that make up the province. Almami Rural LLG Almami Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Madang Provin ...
, Madang Province. Its closest relatives are the
Watam Marangis a.k.a. Watam is a Ramu language of Papua New Guinea. Like Bosmun, it shares a number of irregular plural markers with the Lower Sepik languages, supporting the proposal of a Ramu – Lower Sepik language family. It is spoken in the t ...
and
Kaian Kaian (Kayan) is a Ramu language of Kaian village () in Yawar Rural LLG, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New ...
languages, both of which lie upriver from Kopar, a village situated at the mouth of the Sepik River.


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Ottilien languages Languages of Madang Province {{papuan-lang-stub