Inanwatan-Duriankere, also called simply Inanwatan, is a pair of South Bird's Head languages of New Guinea, Inanwatan and Duriankere. Noting low cognacy rates between them, linguists Gary Holton and Marian Klamer tentatively treat Inanwatan-Duriankere, together with Konda-Yahadian and the Nuclear South Bird's Head family, as independent families until further evidence can be demonstrated.
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Proto-Language StatusHolton and Klamer (2018), noting low cognacy rates between Inanwatan and Duriankere, tentatively treat Inanwatan-Duriankere as an independent language family pending further evidence. 1 Tentative classification pending further evidence; no competing named alternative grouping found in this pass. Partially Attested
Speaker CountReflects only Inanwatan (also called Suabo): approximately 800 speakers (2004, cited here). No published speaker count found for Duriankere in this pass; likely a small remnant population. RegionWest Papua province, Indonesia (South Bird's Head area) 1 In the Other Atlases
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1. Wikipedia: South Bird's Head languages
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Noting low cognacy rates, Holton and Klamer (2018) tentatively consider the following three language groups to each be independent language families, pending further evidence.
View the Source 2. Wikipedia: Inanwatan (Suabo) language
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Inanwatan is endangered: de Vries reports in 2004 that it was mostly people over 50 years of age who speak it fluently, and that the newest generation do not know it. According to his estimate, Inanwatan has 800 or fewer speakers, out of an ethnic population of about 3,000.
Wikidata: South Bird's Head
Wikidata Q7566330, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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