West Bird's Head languages

West Bird's Head
Geographic distribution:	Papua
Linguistic classification:	West Papuan West Bird's Head
Glottolog:	west1493[1]

West Bird's Head languages are a small family of poorly known Papuan languages spoken on the Bird's Head Peninsula of New Guinea.

The West Bird's Head Family is a well-defined family of six languages spoken at the western end of the Bird's Head Peninsula of New Guinea and the eastern part of the island of Salawati opposite the Bird's Head's western shore.

Languages

• Seget–Moi:
  • Seget
  • Moi
• South West Bird's Head:
  • Tehit (or Kaibus; the most populous, with 10,000 speakers)
  • Kalabra (close to Tehit)
  • Moraid,
• ?Kuwani

Kuwani is attested only from a single word list, but is clearly distinct.^[2]

References

1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "West Bird's Head". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
2. Voorhoeve, C.L. 1975. West Papuan Phylum languages on the mainland of New Guinea: Bird's Head (Vogelkop) Peninsula. Papuan Languages and the New Guinea Linguistic Scene, ed. by S.A. Wurm, 717-28. (Pacific Linguistics C-38). Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.