Kiwaian languages

The Kiwaian languages form a language family of New Guinea. They are a dialect cluster of half a dozen closely related languages. They are grammatically divergent from the Trans–New Guinea languages, and typically have singular, dual, trial, and plural pronouns.

Kiwaian
Geographic
distribution
Papua New Guinea
Linguistic classificationa primary language family
Glottologkiwa1251
Map: The Kiwaian languages of New Guinea
  The Kiwaian languages
  Trans–New Guinea languages
  Other Papuan languages
  Austronesian languages
  Uninhabited
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