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Pawaia
RegionPapua New Guinea
Native speakers6,000 (2000)
Language familyPapuan Gulf ?
Dialects
  • Aurama (Turoha, Uri)
  • Hauruha
Language codes
ISO 639-3pwa
Glottologpawa1255
ELPPawaia
Map: The Pawaia language of New Guinea   The Pawaia language   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).

Distribution

Pawaia is spoken in:

Classification

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. Noting insufficient evidence, Pawley and Hammarström (2018) leave it as unclassified rather than as part of Trans-New Guinea.

Pawley and Hammarström (2018) do not consider there to be sufficient evidence for Pawaia to be classified as part of Trans-New Guinea, though they do note the following lexical resemblances between Pawaia and proto-Trans-New Guinea.

  • emi ‘breast’ < *amu
  • in ‘tree’ < *inda
  • su ‘tooth’ < *(s,t)i(s,t)i

Phonology

Consonants
Labial Alveolar Dorsal
Plosive p t k
Fricative s h
Nasal m n
Approximant w l j
Vowels
Front Central Back
High i ĩ u ũ
Mid e o õ
Low a ã ɔ ɔ̃

Pawaia is also tonal, contrasting high and low tone.

Vocabulary

The following basic vocabulary words are from Macdonald (1973) and Trefry (1969), as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database:

gloss Pawaia
head mu
hair muse; sị
ear nȩᶦ; nɛ̣i
eye to; toᵘ
nose ho; họ
tooth su
tongue ha̧pi; hɛmina
leg hɛ; si̧ʔi̧
louse po; poř
dog hạ; hɛ̧
pig ya
bird deř; ge
egg ge džu; yo
blood sɛni; su̧
bone džɛmɛ; yɛmi
skin hɛʔȩ; hɛi
breast ɛmi
tree i̧; in
man džʌʔla; yala
woman oi; u
sun ol; olsuɛ; sia
moon we; wɛ
water sa
fire sia
stone tobu; topu
road, path sụ
name hɛʔɛpi; hopi
eat hatisụɛ; ti haʔayɛ
one pɛʔɛmi; pomi
two naʔau; nau

Further reading

  • Trefry, David. 1969. A Comparative Study of Kuman and Pawaian. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

References

  1. ^ Pawaia at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. New Guinea World, Tua River
  3. Oroi is next to Kaiau and is located in Central Province, Papua New Guinea.
  4. ^ Pawley, Andrew; Hammarström, Harald (2018). "The Trans New Guinea family". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 21–196. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.
  5. ^ Trefry, D. A comparative study of Kuman and Pawaian. B-13, vi + 99 pages. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1969. doi:10.15144/PL-B13
  6. Macdonald, G.E. "The Teberan Language Family". In Franklin, K. editor, The linguistic situation in the Gulf District and adjacent areas, Papua New Guinea. C-26:111-148. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1973. doi:10.15144/PL-C26.111
  7. Greenhill, Simon (2016). "TransNewGuinea.org - database of the languages of New Guinea". Retrieved 2020-11-05.
  • Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". In Andrew Pawley; Robert Attenborough; Robin Hide; Jack Golson (eds.). Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 15–66. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782.

External links

  • Timothy Usher, New Guinea World, Pawaia
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