Bauwaki language

Bauwaki (Bawaki) is a Papuan language of New Guinea, sometimes classified as a member 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.

Bauwaki
Region	Papua New Guinea
Native speakers	(520 cited 2000 census)[1]
Language family	Trans–New Guinea Papuan Peninsula Owen Stanley Range[2] Mailu–Yareban Bauwaki
Dialects	Bauwaki O'oku
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bwk
Glottolog	bauw1241