Kuri language (Austronesian)

Not to be confused with Nabi language.
Kuri
Nabi
Native to Indonesia
Region Bomberai Peninsula
Native speakers
(500 cited 1982)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 nbn
Glottolog kuri1260[2]

Kuri, or Nabi, is a small Austronesian language of the Bomberai Peninsula of New Guinea. Lexically it is very close to Irarutu.

References

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


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