Kunimaipa language
| Kunimaipa | |
|---|---|
| Region | Papua New Guinea | 
| Native speakers | (14,000 cited 1978–2000)[1] | 
| Goilalan
 
 | |
| 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
- ↑  Kunimaipa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
 Weri + Amam at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
 Biangai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Kunimaipa". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Weric". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Biangai". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
External links
- Ryan Pennington (2013) "Tentative grammar description for the Amam language spoken in Morobe Province"
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