The Kwalean languages are spoken in Rigo District, Central Province, Papua New Guinea.
[2] The languages are Humene, Uare (Kwale) and recently extinct Mulaha.
The Kwalean family is not accepted by Søren Wichmann (2013), who splits it into two separate groups, namely Humene–Uare and Mulaha.
Usher (2020) reconstructs the pronouns of Humene–Uare as:[4] Some lexical reconstructions by Usher (2020) are:[4] The following basic vocabulary words are from Dutton (1970)[5] (with additional data for Uare from 1988 SIL field notes), as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database.
Note that the words cited constitute translation equivalents, whether they are cognate (e.g. nuune, nune for “breast”) or not (e.g. hadi, aroba for “stone”).