| Bine | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
Native speakers | 2,000 (2000)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bon |
| Glottolog | bine1240 |
Bine, also known as Pine, Kunini, Masingara or Oriomo (a name shared with Wipi),[2] is a Papuan language of New Guinea. Glottolog lists the following varieties: Boze-Giringarede, Irupi-Drageli, Kunini, Masingle, Sebe, Sogal and Täti.
Speakers refer to the language as either bine mene (Bine language) or kewe mene (village language).[3]
- ^ Bine at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Bine language". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ^ "The ASJP Database - Wordlist Satawalese". asjp.clld.org. Retrieved 2024-03-05.
