Kunimaipa language

Kunimaipa
Region Papua New Guinea
Native speakers
(14,000 cited 1978–2000)[1]
Goilalan
  • Kunimaipa

    • Kunimaipa
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
kup  Kunimaipa
wer  Weri + Amam
big  Biangai
Glottolog kuni1267  (Kunimaipa)[2]
weri1254  (Weric)[3]
bian1252  (Biangai)[4]

Kunimaipa is a Papuan language of New Guinea. The varieties are divergent, on the verge of being distinct languages, and have separate literary traditions.

References

  1. Kunimaipa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Weri + Amam at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Biangai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Kunimaipa". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Weric". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Biangai". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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