OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from Hughes (1995): Dobel

ba-ni

•  who.

Note: When used with an animate third person agreement suffix, singular -ni, and plural |fv-di}, the question marker ba means 'who?'. It would also mean 'which' when referring to a non-human noun which is classified as animate in Dobel.