Bayono-Awbono language

Bayono-Awbono
Region Papua Province, Indonesia
Native speakers
200 (1999)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
byl  Bayono
awh  Awbono
Glottolog bayo1259[2]

Bayono and Awbono represent a recently discovered dialect cluster spoken in Indonesian Papua Province south of the Somahai languages. All that is known of them are a few hundred words recorded in first-contact situations. These demonstrate resemblances to the neighboring Ok and Greater Awyu languages, and the pronouns are consistent with Bayono-Awbono belonging to the Trans–New Guinea family:

Dialect1sg2sg
Awbono ɡu
Bayono ne ɡwe
proto-Awyu–Dumut *nu-p *gu-p
proto-Ok *na- *ka-b-/*ku-b-
proto-TNG *na *ga

References

  1. Bayono at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Awbono at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Bayono–Awbono". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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