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, eds. (2017). "Kunimaipa". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Weric". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Biangai". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Further reading

  • Aki, Mambu; Pennington, Ryan (2013). "Tentative Grammar Description".
  • Boxwel, Maurice (1992). "Organised Phonology Data" (PDF).


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