Sawai language

Sawai
Weda
Native to	Indonesia
Region	North Maluku province
Native speakers	12,000 (2000)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian (MP) Nuclear MP Halmahera Sea South Halmahera Buli Sawai
Dialects	Weda Sawai Kobe Faya-Mafa Messa-Dote
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog	sawa1247
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The Sawai language (also Weda) is a South Halmahera language of Austronesian stock spoken in Weda and Gane Timor districts of southern Halmahera, northern Maluku Province, Indonesia. There are approximately 12,000 speakers.

Below is description of the Kobe dialect of Sawai spoken in the villages of Lelilef Woyebulan and Kobe Peplis.

Sawai has 14 consonants:

Sawai has 7 vowels:

Sawai has the following syllable structure:

Examples:

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