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Pawaia language

Pawaia
Region Papua New Guinea
Native speakers
(4,000 cited 1991)
Trans–New Guinea ?
  • Pawaia
Dialects
  • Aurama (Turoha, Uri)
  • Hauruha
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog pawa1255
Pawaia language.svg
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 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.



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