Bayono language

Bayono
	Enamesi, Swesu; Densar
Region	Papua Province, Indonesia: Eilanden-Steenboom River area
Native speakers	100 (1999)[1]
Language family	Bayono–Awbono Bayono;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	byl
Glottolog	bayo1260
ELP	Bayono[2]

Bayono (Enamesi, Swesu) is a Papuan language spoken in the highlands of Papua Province, Indonesia. All that is known of Bayono is a few hundred words recorded in first-contact situations recorded in Wilbrink (2004)[3] and Hischier (2006).[4]

A Bayono word list from Jacky Menanti is published in Wilbrink (2004).[3]

Kovojab may be closely related.[5]

References

Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Indonesia languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
Endangered Languages Project data for Bayono.
Wilbrink, Ans (2004). The Kopkaka of Papua: Provisional notes on their language, its language affiliation and on the Kopkaka culture. MA thesis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Hischier, Phyllis (2006). Exploration of the Remote Kopayap and Urajin Areas in West Papua, Indonesia: A First Contact in Kopayap and Urajin. Manuscript.
Wilbrink, Ans 2004 in Glottolog 4.1

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[Ethnologue22-ID-1] Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Indonesia languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.

[ELP1-2] Endangered Languages Project data for Bayono.

[Wilbrink-3] Wilbrink, Ans (2004). The Kopkaka of Papua: Provisional notes on their language, its language affiliation and on the Kopkaka culture. MA thesis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

[4] Hischier, Phyllis (2006). Exploration of the Remote Kopayap and Urajin Areas in West Papua, Indonesia: A First Contact in Kopayap and Urajin. Manuscript.

[5] Wilbrink, Ans 2004 in Glottolog 4.1