Waris language

Waris
Region Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea; Papua province, Indonesia
Native speakers
 (undated figure of 4,000)[1]
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3 wrs
Glottolog wari1266[2]

Waris or Walsa is a Papuan language spoken by about 2,500 people around Wasengla, Amanab District, Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea, as well as about 1,500 across the border in the Indonesian province of Papua.

Phonology

Vowels

Monophthongs

Front Central Back
Close i u
Close-mid e
Mid ə
Open-mid ɛ ɔ
Near-open æ
Open a ɒ

Diphthongs and triphthongs

ViVɛVɑVɒVɔVu
iV iɑ
ɛV ɛɔɛu
ɑV ɑiɑɔ
ɒV ɒi
ɔV ɔiɔɑ
uV uiuɛuɑuɒ

There are two triphthongs, /ɔɑi/ and /uɛu/.

Consonants

Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Velar
Stop Voiceless p t k
Prenasalised ᵐb ⁿd ᵑɡ
Nasal m n
Fricative Voiceless s x
Voiced β
Trill r
Lateral approximant l
Approximant w j

References

  1. ↑ Waris at Ethnologue (13th ed., 1996).
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Waris". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  • Brown, Robert (1981). "Semantic aspects of some Waris predications". In Karl J. Franklin. Syntax and semantics in Papua New Guinea languages. Ukarumpa: Summer Institute of Linguistics. pp. 93–123.
  • Brown, Robert (1988). "Waris case system and verb classification". Language and Linguistics in Melanesia. 19: 37–80.
  • Brown, Robert; Honoratus Wai (1986). Diksenari: Walsana moa Pisinna moa Englisna moa (A short dictionary of the Walsa [Waris] language, Tok Pisin and English). Ukarumpa: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
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