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]
Trans–New Guinea?
Language codes
ISO 639-3dui
Glottologdumu1246  Dumun[2]
baim1246  Bai-Maclay[3]

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 (23nd ed., 2020)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Dumun". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Bai-Maclay". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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