Dumun language

Dumun
Bai (?)
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionMadang Province
Native speakers
(120 cited 2000 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3dui
Glottologdumu1246  Dumun
baim1246  Bai-Maclay
ELPDumun
Dumun is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Dumun is an endangered Madang 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.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ Dumun at Ethnologue (23rd ed., 2020) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Dunn, Michael (January 2012). "Systematic typological comparison as a tool for investigating language history". Melanesian Languages on the Edge of Asia: Challenges for the 21st Century.
  3. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forke, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2020). "Bai-Maclay". Glottolog 4.3.


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