Bayono-Awbono languages

Bayono-Awbono languages

Infobox Language family
name=Bayono-Awbono
region=Papua Province, Indonesia
familycolor=Papuan
family=unclassified languages
child1=Bayono
child2=Awbono
The Bayono-Awbono languages are a small family of Papuan languages, Bayono and Awbono, each spoken by a hundred people in the southeast of Papua province, Indonesia. The Bayono are monolingual.

The languages have only recently been recognized, and were not classified by either Stephen Würm or Malcolm Ross.


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