Pawaia language
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| Pawaia | |
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| Region | Papua New Guinea |
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Native speakers
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unknown (4,000 cited 1991)[1] |
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Trans–New Guinea ?
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| Dialects |
Aurama (Turoha, Uri)
Hauruha
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | pwa |
| Glottolog | pawa1255[2] |
Map: The Pawaia language of New Guinea
The Pawaia language
Other Trans–New Guinea languages
Other Papuan languages
Austronesian languages
Uninhabited
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Pawaia, also known as Sira, Tudahwe, Yasa, is a Trans–New Guinea language that forms a tentative independent branch of that family in the classification of Malcolm Ross (2005). Although Pawaia has proto-Trans–New Guinea vocabulary, Ross considers its inclusion questionable on available evidence.
References
- ↑ Pawaia at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
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