Pawaia
Pawaia is a language isolate spoken in Papua New Guinea. Glottolog rates it shifting.
An isolate: no relationship to any other known language has been demonstrated.
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).
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Words in Pawaia
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | ja7ara* | |
| name | hE7Epi* | |
| eye | tou* | |
| ear | nei* | |
| nose | ho* | |
| tooth | su* | |
| tongue | hapi* | |
| blood | su* | |
| bone | jEmE* | |
| skin | hE7e* | |
| knee | opo* | |
| breast | Emi* | |
| liver | su* | |
| water | sa | |
| fire | sia* | |
| sun | sia* | |
| star | no7u* | |
| stone | topu* | |
| mountain | so7opo7odu* | |
| leaf | inesi* | |
| night | si7ino* | |
| dog | hE* | |
| fish | sai* | |
| louse | po* | |
| one | pE7Emi* | |
| two | na7au* | |
| I | ane* | |
| you | une* | |
| we | nole* | |
| drink | EyE* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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Elsewhere
Glottolog · pawa1255 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · pwa