Bauwaki language
| Bauwaki | |
|---|---|
| Region | Papua New Guinea |
Native speakers | 520 (2000 census)[1] |
|
Trans–New Guinea
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
bwk |
| Glottolog |
bauw1241[3] |
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.
References
- 1 2 Bauwaki at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ New Guinea World, Owen Stanley Range
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Bauwaki–Ooku". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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