Island Kiwai dialect. Island Kiwai is spoken on
Kiwai Island and some nearby areas in the Fly River delta,
Western Province, Papua New Guinea. Wurm (1977) reports
that vowel length is absent but that VV and V + diphthong
clusters occur. A vowel harmony system is present which
"affects the vowels of affixes, especially prefixes" but
no details are given. There is a complex stress system
and two tones but the functional load of the tonal
contrast is low. All syllables are open and no consonant
clusters occur.

Wurm, S.A. 1977. Missionary lingue franche: Kiwai. In
S.A. Wurm (ed.), Language, Culture, Society, and the
Modern World, fascicle 2. New Guinea Area Languages and
Language Study, vol. 3. Pacific Linguistics, Series C,
No. 40. Australian National University, Canberra.