Kuwani language
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]
| Kuwani | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | West Papua |
West Papuan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
qqz | |
| Glottolog | None |
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
gollark: Depends on dose, I guess.
gollark: Radiation poisoning?
gollark: Er. DNA and cell damage? I don't know exactly what would happen, but in the long run cancer and stuff.
gollark: Gamma rays have the "advantage" of being ionizing and thus messing you up in more ways than just purely heating you.
gollark: While they're electromagnetic radiation, different bits of the spectrum have very different properties and are generated in different ways.
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. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 569–640. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.
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