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.^[1]

Comparison

Smits and Voorhoeve (1998) assumed it to be equivalent to Kalabra, but there are significant lexical differences.^[2] Some lexical differences between Kuwani and Kalabra are given below.^[3]

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.