Native to Papua Native speakers 3,000 (1995) | Region Bird's Head Peninsula ISO 639-3 kgr | |
Language family West Papuan
Bird's Head
Abun Dialects Abun Tat (Karon Pantai)
Abun Ji (Madik)
Abun Je | ||
Abun, also known as Yimbun, A Nden, Manif, or 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.
Abun used to have three lexical tones, but only two are distinguished now as minimal pairs and even these are found in limited vocabulary. Therefore Abun is said to be losing its tonality due to linguistic change.
References
Abun language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA