Sawi
bahasa Aejauroh
Sawi is a Nuclear Trans New Guinea language spoken in Indonesia. Glottolog rates it moribund.
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Sawi or Sawuy is a language of the Sawi people of the Trans–New Guinea phylum spoken in sago swamps in the southwestern parts of the Indonesian province of Papua. Of the neighboring languages, it is most closely related to the Awyu languages to the east.
Sawi is an inflecting language and uses both inflections of the stem and suffixes to indicate person, number, and tense.
The Bible began to be translated in 1970 by Canadian missionary, Don Richardson. The New Testament was completed in 1994. It is available on YouVersion, and published by the Indonesian Bible Society. Work is ongoing to translate the Old Testament.
From Wikipedia · Sawi language (Papuan) · CC BY-SA 4.0
Words in Sawi
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | rigap* | |
| name | fui* | |
| eye | kod* | |
| ear | sedap* | |
| nose | yokop* | |
| tooth | torok* | |
| tongue | sep* | |
| hand | it* | |
| blood | esax* | |
| bone | kwotebar* | |
| skin | abag* | |
| knee | ob3xan* | |
| breast | am* | |
| water | ax* | |
| fire | yod* | |
| sun | atap* | |
| star | xautim* | |
| stone | yakae* | |
| tree | toxod* | |
| leaf | mox* | |
| night | besoguy* | |
| dog | sir* | |
| louse | amur* | |
| one | paid3rap* | |
| two | nauri* | |
| I | nogo* | |
| you | go* | |
| we | nigip* | |
| see | naxad* | |
| hear | dar* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
Most similar languages
Vocabulary
- KorowaiNuclear Trans New Guinea18% alike
- Mandobo AtasNuclear Trans New Guinea14% alike
- AghuNuclear Trans New Guinea14% alike
- Mandobo BawahNuclear Trans New Guinea13% alike
- Edera AwyuNuclear Trans New Guinea12% alike
- WambonNuclear Trans New Guinea11% alike
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
Nearby languages
Elsewhere
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