Kuri language (Austronesian)

Not to be confused with Nabi language.
Kuri
Nabi
Native to Indonesia
Region Bomberai Peninsula
Native speakers
unknown (500 cited 1982)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 nbn
Glottolog kuri1260[2]

Kuri, or Nabi, is a small Austronesian language of the Bomberai Peninsula of New Guinea. Lexically it is very close to Irarutu.

References

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


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