Bayono–Awbono languages
Awyu–Ok language spoken in Indonesia
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Bayono–Awbono is a Papuan language cluster spoken in Papua Province, Indonesia, to the south of the Somahai languages. All that is known of them is a few hundred words recorded in first-contact situations recorded in Wilbrink (2004) and Hischier (2006).
distributionPapua Province, Indonesia
- Central West New Guinea
- Awyu–Ok
- Greater Awyu
- Becking–Dawi
- Bayono–Awbono
- Becking–Dawi
- Greater Awyu
- Awyu–Ok
| Bayono–Awbono | |
|---|---|
| Geographic distribution | Papua Province, Indonesia |
| Linguistic classification | Trans–New Guinea
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| Subdivisions | |
| Language codes | |
| Glottolog | bayo1259 |
Languages
Classification
Noting insufficient evidence, Pawley and Hammarström (2018) leave Bayono–Awbono as unclassified rather than as part of Trans-New Guinea.[3] However, according to Dryer (2022), based on a preliminary quantitative analysis of data from the ASJP database, Bayono–Awbono is likely to be a subgroup of Trans–New Guinea.[4]
Timothy Usher finds enough evidence to classify Awbono–Bayono within the Greater Awyu (Digul River) family.[5]
Wilbrink (2004) notes limited similarity with the neighboring Ok languages, and does not classify Bayono–Awbono with Ok.[1]
Pronouns
The pronouns 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:
Lect 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
