| Kuwani | |
| States: | Indonesia |
| Region: | West Papua |
| Speakers: | ? |
| Familycolor: | Papuan |
| Fam1: | West Papuan? |
| Fam2: | Bird's Head |
| Fam3: | West Bird's Head |
| Iso3: | none |
| Linglist: | qqz |
| Glotto: | none |
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]
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 | |
| ‘1’ | tetike | tet |