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Bayono-Awbono language

Bayono-Awbono
Region Papua Province, Indonesia
Native speakers
200 (1999)
Trans–New Guinea
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
byl – Bayono
awh – Awbono
Glottolog bayo1259

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:



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