Dumun language

Dumun is an endangered Madang language spoken in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea.

Dumun
Bai (?)
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionMadang Province
Native speakers
120 (2000 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3dui
Glottologdumu1246  Dumun
baim1246  Bai-Maclay
ELPDumun[2]

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.[3][4]

References

  1. Dumun at Ethnologue (23nd ed., 2020)
  2. Endangered Languages Project data for Dumun.
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forke, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2020). "Bai-Maclay". Glottolog 4.3.


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