Dibiyaso language
Dibiyaso | |
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Bainapi | |
Region | Papua New Guinea |
Native speakers | 2,000 (2000 census)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
dby |
Glottolog |
dibi1240 [2] |
Dibiyaso AKA Bainapi is an unclassified Papuan language of Papua New Guinea. It is sometimes linked to Bosavi, but the resemblances appear to be loans.[2]
There is 19% lexical cognacy with Turumsa, suggesting it may prove to be a Doso–Turumsa language.[3]
References
- ↑ Dibiyaso at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- 1 2 Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Dibiyaso". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices
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