Bayono-Awbono language

Bayono-Awbono
Region	Papua Province, Indonesia
Native speakers	200 (1999)[1]
Language family	Trans–New Guinea Central West New Guinea Awyu–Ok Greater Awyu Becking–Dawi Bayono-Awbono; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either:; byl – Bayono; awh – Awbono
Glottolog	bayo1259[2]

Bayono, Awbono and Densar constitute 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:

Dialect	1sg	2sg
Awbono	nɛ	ɡu
Bayono	ne	ɡwe
proto-Awyu–Dumut	*nu-p	*gu-p
proto-Ok	*na-	ka-b-/ku-b-
proto-TNG	*na	*ga

References

↑ Bayono at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Awbono at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Bayono–Awbono". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Ans Wilbrink (2004) The Kopkaka of Papua: Provisional notes on their language, its language affiliation and on the Kopkaka culture. MA thesis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

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[e18-1] Bayono at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Awbono at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Bayono–Awbono". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.