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Kuri language (Austronesian)

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Native to
  
Indonesia

Native speakers
  
(500 cited 1982)

Glottolog
  
kuri1260

Region
  
Bomberai Peninsula

ISO 639-3
  
nbn

Language family
  
Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian (MP) Nuclear MP (Central–Eastern) Halmahera–Cenderawasih Irarutu–Nabi Kuri

Kuri, or Nabi, is a small Austronesian language of the Bomberai Peninsula of New Guinea. Lexically it is very close to Irarutu.

References

Kuri language (Austronesian) Wikipedia