Abun language
| Abun | |
|---|---|
| North Bird's Head | |
| Native to | Papua |
| Region | Bird's Head Peninsula |
Native speakers | 3,000 (1995)[1] |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
kgr |
| Glottolog |
abun1252[2] |
Abun, also known as Yimbun, A Nden, Manif, Karon, is a West Papuan language of New Guinea. It is not closely related to any other language, and though Ross (2005) assigned it to the West Papuan family, based on similarities in pronouns, Ethnologue and Glottolog list it as a language isolate.[1][2]
Abun use to have three lexical tones, but only two are distinguished now as minimal pairs and even these are found in limited vocabulary. There fore Abun is said to be losing its tonality due to linguistic change.[3]
References
- 1 2 Abun at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- 1 2 Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Abun". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Muysken, Pieter. From Linguistic Areas to Areal Linguistics. John Benjamins Publishing Company. p. 134. ISBN 9789027231000.
- Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". In Andrew Pawley; Robert Attenborough; Robin Hide; Jack Golson. Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 15–66. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782.
- Abun languages on TransNewGuinea.org
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