The Monumbo or Bogia Bay languages are a pair of closely related languages that constitute a branch of the Torricelli language family. They are spoken in a few coastal villages around

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. Unlike all other Torricelli branches except for the

Marienberg languages The Marienberg or Marienberg Hills languages are a branch of the Torricelli language family. They are spoken in a mountainous stretch of region located between the towns of Wewak and Angoram in the Marienberg Hills of East Sepik Province, Papua ...

, word order in the Bogia languages is SOV, likely due to contact with

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and

Sepik languages The Sepik or Sepik River languages are a family of some 50 Papuan languages spoken in the Sepik river basin of northern Papua New Guinea, proposed by Donald Laycock in 1965 in a somewhat more limited form than presented here. They tend to have ...

. There are two languages, : Monumbo (Mambuwan) and Lilau

Classification

They have for several decades been lumped into the Torricelli family 100 km to the west, but "no evidence or thiswas ever presented" according to Glottolog.Glottolog: Monumbo
/ref> Foley (2018) classifies the Monumbo languages as Torricelli.

References

{{Torricelli languages Sepik Coast languages Languages of Madang Province