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Kuwani language

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Region
  
Papua

Linguist list
  
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ISO 639-3
  
None (mis)

Glottolog
  
None

Language family
  
West Papuan Bird's Head West Bird's Head Kuwani

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. Smits and Voorhoeve (1998) assumed it to be equivalent to Kalabra, but there are significant lexical differences.

References

Kuwani language Wikipedia