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West Bird's Head languages

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Geographic distribution
  
Papua

Glottolog
  
west1493

Linguistic classification
  
West Papuan West Bird's Head

West Bird's Head languages are a small family of poorly known Papuan languages spoken on the Bird's Head Peninsula of New Guinea.

The West Bird's Head Family is a well-defined family of six languages spoken at the western end of the Bird's Head Peninsula of New Guinea and the eastern part of the island of Salawati opposite the Bird's Head's western shore.

Languages

  • Seget–Moi:
  • Seget
  • Moi
  • South West Bird's Head:
  • Tehit (or Kaibus; the most populous, with 10,000 speakers)
  • Kalabra (close to Tehit)
  • Moraid,
  •  ?Kuwani

    • Kuwani is attested only from a single word list, but is clearly distinct.

    References

    West Bird's Head languages Wikipedia
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