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Shiaxa (Sjiagha) and Yenimu (Jénimu, Oser), together known as South Awyu, are a Papuan language or languages of Papua, Indonesia. Whether they constitute one language or two depends on one's criteria for a 'language'. The two varieties are,

• Bamgi River Awyu (Oser, Yenimu/Jénimu)
• Ia River Awyu (Shiaxa/Sjìagha)

Phonology

• Word-initial voiced stops /b, d, ɡ/ may have prenasalized allophones when the preceding word within a sentence ends in a vowel.
• /s/ may have an allophone of when preceding /i/, and may also have an affricate allophone in word-initial positions.
• /x/ may be voiced as in intervocalic positions.
• /n/ when in word-final position, may nasalize a preceding vowel .
• In the Yenimu dialect, /ɾ/ may also have lateral allophones as or .

References

1. Shiaxa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. New Guinea World - Awyu
3. Voorhoeve, C. L. (2001). Proto-Awyu-Dumut phonology II. In Andrew Pawley and Malcolm Ross and Darrell Tryon (eds.), The Boy from Bundaberg: Studies in Melanesian Linguistics in Honor of Tom Dutton: Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. pp. 361–381.

External links

• Shiaxa at the Awyu–Ndumut research group at VU University Amsterdam:

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