Kuwani is a poorly attested

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of the

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of New Guinea. It is attested only from a single word list, and even its exact location is unknown.

Comparison

Smits and Voorhoeve (1998) assumed it to be equivalent to Kalabra, but there are significant lexical differences.Smits, Leo and C.L. Voorhoeve. 1998. The J. C. Anceaux collection of wordlists of Irian Jaya languages B: Non-Austronesian (Papuan) languages (Part II) Leiden/Jakarta: DSALCUL/IRIS. Some lexical differences between Kuwani and Kalabra are given below. :

References

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