Bisorio

Facts

  • Language: Bisorio
  • Alternate names: Bi, Gne, Sidi, Iniai, Inyai-Gadio-Bisorio, Bikaru, Bigalu, Bugalu, Pikaru
  • Language code: bir, bic
  • Language family: Trans-New Guinea; Engan (SIL classification)
  • Number of speakers: 200?
  • Vulnerability: Endangered
  • Script:

More information:

    Ethnologue (18th edition) lists "Bikaru" [bic] as a separate language, despite also listing it as a dialect of Bisorio. The entry for Bikaru follows Laycock's (1973) tentative assignment of the language to the Sepik family, but Conrad and Lewis (1988) argue that Bikaru is a dialect of Bisorio (Trans-New Guinea family).