Dumun language

Dumun
Dumun
Bai (?)
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Madang Province
Native speakers	120 (2000 census)[1]
Language family	Trans–New Guinea? Madang Yaganon? Dumun; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	dui
Glottolog	dumu1246 Dumun; baim1246 Bai-Maclay
ELP	Dumun

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

Dumun at Ethnologue (23rd ed., 2020)
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.
Hammarström, Harald; Forke, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2020). "Bai-Maclay". Glottolog 4.3.

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[e23-1] Dumun at Ethnologue (23rd ed., 2020)

[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.