Kuwani language

{{Infobox language

|name=Kuwani

|nativename=

|states=Indonesia

|region=West Papua

|ethnicity=

|speakers=?

|date=

|familycolor=Papuan

|fam1=West Papuan?

|fam2=Bird's Head

|fam3=West Bird's Head

|iso3=none

|linglist=qqz

|glotto=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.Language, 1979, 55:899

Comparison

Smits and Voorhoeve (1998) assumed it to be equivalent to Kalabra, but there are significant lexical differences.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. Some lexical differences between Kuwani and Kalabra are given below.{{cite book |last1=Holton |first1=Gary |last2=Klamer |first2=Marian |editor1-last=Palmer |editor1-first=Bill |date=2018 |title=The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide |chapter=The Papuan languages of East Nusantara and the Bird’s Head |series= The World of Linguistics |volume=4 |location=Berlin |publisher=De Gruyter Mouton |pages=569–640 |isbn=978-3-11-028642-7}}

class="wikitable" ! gloss !! Kuwani !! Kalabra
‘ear’	indibit	difitlas
‘eye’	inzibun	sifogo
‘hand’	owani	defo
‘1{{sc\|sg}}’	tetike	tet

References

Category:Languages of Western New Guinea

Category:West Bird's Head languages