Dumun language

Dumun
Bai (?)
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Madang Province
Native speakers
35 (2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 dui
Glottolog dumu1246  (Dumun)[2]
baim1246  (Bai-Maclay)[3]

Dumun is a nearly extinct Rai Coast language spoken in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea.

Dumun is reported to go by the name Bai, but evidently this is a distinct (though related) language, or at least a variety called Bai recorded by Maclay was distinct.[4][3]

References

  1. Dumun at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Dumun". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. 1 2 Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Bai-Maclay". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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