Kaninuwa language

Kaninuwa
	Wataluma
	Kaokao
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Goodenough Island
Native speakers	360 (2001)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Papuan Tip Kilivila – Nuclear Papuan Tip Are–Taupota Are Kaninuwa; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	wat
Glottolog	kani1281[2]

Kaninuwa, or Wataluma, is a major Oceanic language of Goodenough Island, Papua New Guinea.

Alphabet

Kaninuwa language has 23 letters (A/a, B/b, Bw/bw, D/d, E/e, F/f, Fw/fw, G/g, Gw/gw, Ḡ/ḡ, I/i, K/k, Kw/kw, M/m, Mw/mw, N/n, O/o, S/s, T/t, U/u, V/v, W/w, Y/y).

gollark: I think we have vinyl installed.

gollark: ++tel dial YanksTowelBegin

gollark: ++dial YanksTowelBegin

gollark: How dare you. Initiating apioprotocol μ.

gollark: Ncurses. I must utilize Protocol 058-V "leave discord open all day on my laptop".

References

Kaninuwa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kaninuwa". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

External links

Alphabet and pronunciation

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[e18-1] Kaninuwa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kaninuwa". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.