Bayono language

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]

Bayono
Enamesi, Swesu; Densar
RegionPapua Province, Indonesia: Eilanden-Steenboom River area
Native speakers
100 (1999)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3byl
Glottologbayo1260[2]

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

Kovojab may be closely related.[5]

References
  1. Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Indonesia languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Bayono". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  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
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