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

↑ 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.

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