Kowiai language

{{Short description|Austronesian language of New Guinea}}

{{Infobox language

|name = Kowiai

|nativename = South Bomberai

|states = Indonesia

|region = Kaimana Regency

|speakers = 600

|date=2000

|ref=e18

|familycolor = Austronesian

|fam2 = Malayo-Polynesian

|fam3 = Central–Eastern

|fam4 = East Central Maluku

|fam5 = Seram LautCharles Grimes & Owen Edwards (in process) Wallacean subgroups: unravelling the prehistory and classification of the Austronesian languages of eastern Indonesia and Timor-Leste. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33B3FXQmvok Summary presentation at the 15th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics].

|iso3 = kwh

|glotto=kowi1239

|glottorefname=Kowiai

}}

Kowiai (Kuiwai) is an Austronesian language of the Bomberai Peninsula in New Guinea. According to the Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific and Asia, Kowiai is spoken in the coastal regions between Arguni and Etna bay.{{Cite book|last1=Wurm|first1=Stephen A.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lFW1BwAAQBAJ&q=Kowiai+language&pg=PA715|title=Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas: Vol I: Maps. Vol II: Texts|last2=Mühlhäusler|first2=Peter|last3=Tryon|first3=Darrell T.|date=2011-02-11|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=978-3-11-081972-4|language=en}}