Kuwani language

Kuwani
Region Papua
Language codes
ISO 639-3 None (mis)
Linguist list
 qqz
Glottolog None

Kuwani is a poorly attested Papuan language of the Bird's Head Peninsula of New Guinea. It is attested only from a single word list, and even its exact location is unknown.[1] Smits and Voorhoeve (1998) assumed it to be equivalent to Kalabra, but there are significant lexical differences.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Language, 1979, 55:899
  2. ↑ Smits, Leo and C.L. Voorhoeve. 1998. The J. C. Anceaux collection of wordlists of Irian Jaya languages B: Non-Austronesian (Papuan) languages (Part II) Leiden/Jakarta: DSALCUL/IRIS.


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