Spoken L1 Language: Dibiyaso

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Dibiyaso is often associated with its northern neighbour Bosavi through a small number of matching lexical items. Ger P. Reesink 1976: 12 gives a number of lexical lookalikes between Dibiyaso and Kaluli. These contain a few fairly convincing comparisons where Dibiyasu p corresponds to Kaluli f. The items in question are common to the entire Bosavi Watershed group (not just Kaluli) but none are found in the Etoro-Bedamini group. This suggests, that we are dealing with loans between Dibiyaso and the Bosavi watershed group. Similarly, Turumsa and Dibiyaso are said to share as much as 19% lexicostatistical similarity Ian Tupper 2007 , but, looking at the items in question and the sociolinguistic situation, a loan scenario is preferable to a genealogical one.

AES status:
shifting
Source:
Campbell, Lyle and Lee, Nala Huiying and Okura, Eve and Simpson, Sean and Ueki, Kaori 2022
Comment:
Dibiyaso (10735-dby) = Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)

(see Hammarström 2017)

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