Abun

bahasa A Nden

Abun is a language isolate spoken in Indonesia, by about 3,000 people. Glottolog rates it shifting.

Abun · 0.6°S 132.4°E

An isolate: no relationship to any other known language has been demonstrated.

Abun, also known as Yimbun, Anden, Manif, or Karon Pantai, is a Papuan language spoken by the Abun people along the northern coast of the Bird's Head Peninsula in Sausapor District, Tambrauw Regency. 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, Palmer (2018), 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.

Being spoken along the coast of northwestern New Guinea, Abun is in contact with Austronesian languages; maritime vocabulary in Abun has been borrowed from Biak.

From Wikipedia · Abun language · CC BY-SA 4.0

Words in Abun

Meaning	Word	Romanization
person	ye*
name	gum*
eye	gro*
ear	git*
nose	gwembo*
hand	syim*
blood	de*
skin	da*
water	syur
sun	kam*
mountain	banbo*
tree	kwe*
leaf	nat*
night	noru*
dog	ndar*
fish	boge*
one	dik*
two	we*
I	ji*
you	nan*
we	men*
drink	da*
see	me*
hear	jam*
die	kwop*
come	ma*
path	os*
new	be*
full	sEs*