Abun language

Abun
North Bird's Head
Spoken in Papua
Region Bird's Head Peninsula
Native speakers 3,000  (1995)
Language family
Dialects
Abun Tat (Karon Pantai)
Abun Ji (Madik)
Abun Je
Language codes
ISO 639-3 kgr

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 (2009) removed it as a language isolate.

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