Bine language

Bine
Native toPapua New Guinea
Native speakers
2,000 (2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3bon
Glottologbine1240

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]

  1. ^ Bine at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Bine language". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ^ "The ASJP Database - Wordlist Satawalese". asjp.clld.org. Retrieved 2024-03-05.