Awin–Pa | |
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Awin–Pare | |
Geographic distribution |
New Guinea |
Linguistic classification |
Trans–New Guinea
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Subdivisions | |
Glottolog | awin1249 |
Map: The Awin–Pa languages of New Guinea
The Awin–Pa languages
Other Trans–New Guinea languages
Other Papuan languages
Austronesian languages
Uninhabited
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The Awin–Pa or Awin–Pare languages are a small family of the Trans–New Guinea languages (TNG) in the classification of Malcolm Ross. Stephen Wurm (1975) added them to an expanded Central and South New Guinea branch of TNG, a position reversed by Ross (2005).
The languages are just two, Aekyowm (Awin) and Pare (Pa), and closely related to each other, perhaps even a dialect cluster. The pronouns appear to have been:
(The dual and plural forms are rather uncertain.)