Kuwani language

Kuwani
Kuwani
Native to	Indonesia
Region	West Papua
Language family	West Papuan? Bird's Head West Bird's Head Kuwani; ; ;
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.

Comparison

Smits and Voorhoeve (1998) assumed it to be equivalent to Kalabra, but there are significant lexical differences. Some lexical differences between Kuwani and Kalabra are given below.

gloss	Kuwani	Kalabra
‘ear’	indibit	difitlas
‘eye’	inzibun	sifogo
‘hand’	owani	defo
‘1sg’	tetike	tet

References

↑ Language, 1979, 55:899
↑ 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.
↑ Holton, Gary; Klamer, Marian (2018). "The Papuan languages of East Nusantara and the Bird's Head". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 569–640. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.

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[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.

[Holton-Birds-Head-3] Holton, Gary; Klamer, Marian (2018). "The Papuan languages of East Nusantara and the Bird's Head". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 569–640. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.