Pawaia language

Pawaia
Region Papua New Guinea
Native speakers
 (4,000 cited 1991)[1]
Papuan Gulf ?
  • Teberan–Pawaian[2]
    • Pawaia
Dialects
  • Aurama (Turoha, Uri)
  • Hauruha
Language codes
ISO 639-3 pwa
Glottolog pawa1255[3]
Map: The Pawaia language of New Guinea
  The Pawaia language
  Other Trans–New Guinea languages
  Other Papuan languages
  Austronesian languages
  Uninhabited

Pawaia, also known as Sira, Tudahwe, Yasa, is a Papuan language that forms a tentative independent branch of the Trans–New Guinea family in the classification of Malcolm Ross (2005). Although Pawaia has reflexes of proto-Trans–New Guinea vocabulary, Ross considers its inclusion questionable on available evidence. Usher classifies it instead with the Teberan languages.

References

  1. ↑ Pawaia at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ New Guinea World, Tua River
  3. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Pawaia". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  • Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". In Andrew Pawley; Robert Attenborough; Robin Hide; Jack Golson. Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 15&ndash, 66. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782.
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