Kiwai language

Kiwai
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Gulf Province, Fly River delta
Native speakers	ca. 30,000 (2011)[1]
Language family	Trans–New Guinea ? Kiwai–Porome Kiwaian Kiwai
Dialects	Doumori Coast Kiwai Southern Coast Kiwai Daru Kiwai Eastern Kiwai Island Kiwai Gibaio Kope (Gope, Era River) Urama Arigibi (Anigibi)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either: kiw – Northeast Kiwai kjd – Southern Kiwai
Glottolog	nort2930  (Northeast)[2] sout2949  (Southern)[3]

Kiwai is a Papuan language, or languages, of southern Papua New Guinea. Dialects number 1,300 Kope, 700 Gibaio, 1,700 Urama, 700 Arigibi (together "Northeast Kiwai"), 3,800 Coast, 1,000 Daru, 4,500 Island, 400 Doumori (together "Southern Kiwai"). Wurm and Hattori (1981) classify Arigibi as a separate language.

References

1. Northeast Kiwai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Southern Kiwai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Northeast Kiwai". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Southern Kiwai". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.