Kuwani language

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]

Kuwani
Native to	Indonesia
Region	West Papua
Language family	West Papuan? Bird's Head West Bird's Head Kuwani
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Linguist List	qqz
Glottolog	None

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]

gloss	Kuwani	Kalabra
‘ear’	indibit	difitlas
‘eye’	inzibun	sifogo
‘hand’	owani	defo
‘1SG’	tetike	tet