Awara language

Awara
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Morobe Province
Native speakers	1,900 (2007 census)[1]
Language family	Trans–New Guinea Finisterre–Huon Finisterre Wantoat Awara; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	awx
Glottolog	awar1248[2]

Awara is one of the Finisterre languages of Papua New Guinea. It is part of a dialect chain with Wantoat, but in only 60–70% lexically similar.

Alphabet

In Awara language has 21 letters (Aa, Ää, Bb, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Ss, Tt, Uu, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz), 3 digraphs (Gw gw, Kw kw, Ng ng) and trigraph (Ngw ngw)

References

↑ Awara at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Awara". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

External links

Alphabet and pronunciation

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[e16-1] Awara at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Awara". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.