[Mihalic] abonono

[John Burton]

See web site: "The Tinputz language of northeast Boungainville, at least,
has bonono for dugong (and dugongs, though rare, can be seen there)" [says
RS].

However, what we don't have is sightings of bonon, bonono, abonono etc in TP
itself.
John Burton

> Has anyone come across this word before? While doing 
> fieldwork in Bougainville, I came across it as the Tok Pisin 
> translation for a Rotokas word glossed as "sea cow, manatee, 
> dugong".  Thanks in advance.
> 
> | Stuart Robinson <Stuart.Robinson at mpi.nl>             |
>