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]
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]
^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. Vol. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 569–640.
ISBN978-3-11-028642-7.