Bayono-Awbono language

Bayono-Awbono
Region	Papua Province, Indonesia
Native speakers	200 (1999)[1]
Language family	Trans–New Guinea Ok or Greater Awyu? Bayono-Awbono
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:

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

1. Bayono at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Awbono at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Bayono–Awbono". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

• 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.