Bauwaki language

Bauwaki
Region Papua New Guinea
Native speakers
520  (2000 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 bwk
Glottolog bauw1241[2]

Bauwaki (Bawaki) is a Papuan language of New Guinea, apparently of the Mailuan family. It is 70% lexically similar to Abia of the Yareban family. Dutton (1971) proposed it to be a 'bridge' between the Mailuan and Yareban language families.[1] O'oku, either a dialect or a closely related language, is similarly lexically 60% Yareban.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Bauwaki at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Bauwaki–Ooku". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.