Kiwai language
| Kiwai | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Western Province, Fly River delta |
Native speakers | ca. 30,000 (2011)[1] |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
Either:kiw – Northeast Kiwaikjd – Southern Kiwai |
| Glottolog |
nort2930 Northeast[2]sout2949 Southern[3] |
Kiwai is a Papuan language, or languages, of southern Papua New Guinea. Dialects number 1,300 Kope, 700 Gibaio, 1,700 Urama, 700 Arigibi (together "Northeast Kiwai"), 3,800 Coast, 1,000 Daru, 4,500 Island, 400 Doumori (together "Southern Kiwai"). Wurm and Hattori (1981) classify Arigibi as a separate language.
Further reading
Urama
- Brown, Jason; Muir, Alex; Craig, Kimberly; Anea, Karika (2016). A Short Grammar of Urama. Canberra: Asia-Pacific Linguistics. ISBN 9781922185228. hdl:1885/111328
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- Brown, Jason; Peterson, Tyler; Craig, Kimberley (2016). "Belief, Evidence, and Interactional Meaning in Urama". Oceanic Linguistics. 55 (2): 432–448. doi:10.1353/ol.2016.0020.
External links
- A number of collections in Paradisec include Southern Kiwai materials
References
- ↑ Northeast Kiwai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Southern Kiwai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Northeast Kiwai". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Southern Kiwai". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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