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Bisunas / Biṡunas (gender unknown) (plurale tantum)

(with) definite article: ? [is/sas?]
➺ remark(s) to Bisonas

From the Latin adjective "bisonus" [having 2 sounds]; Giulio Paulis states that "At the time of Romanization, the Nuragic tribes of Sardinia’s interior still must have used a type of double-clarinet, which is shown by the fact that in Urzulei, Baunei, Talana, Jezu, Lanusei, Barisardo, Gairo, Tortolì, Perdasdefogu and Villaputzu, villages on the eastern edge of the island that preserve very ancient cultural traditions, the Launeddas are […] called by another name: bíṡonas/biṡònas or also bíṡunas, biṡùnas and biṡònes, as well"; NB: Spelling Biṡunas scientific [?] .


Sources

Paulis, Giulio: I nomi delle launeddas: origine e storia [with an extensive article on their manufacture]. In: Sonos (1994), p.140 (Bísunas [Perdasdefogu]).

Paulis, Giulio: I Romani e le launeddas. In: Launeddas: l’anima di un popolo (1997), p.224 (Biṡunas).