Kunimaipa language

Kunimaipa
Region Papua New Guinea
Native speakers
unknown (14,000 cited 1978–2000)[1]
Goilalan
  • Kunimaipa

    • Kunimaipa
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
kup  Kunimaipa
wer  Weri + Amam
big  Biangai
Glottolog kuni1267  (Kunimaipa)[2]
weri1254  (Weric)[3]
bian1252  (Biangai)[4]

Kunimaipa is a Papuan language of New Guinea. The varieties are divergent, on the verge of being distinct languages, and have separate literary traditions.

References

  1. Kunimaipa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Weri + Amam at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Biangai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kunimaipa". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Weric". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  4. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Biangai". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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