Native to Papua New Guinea Native speakers 1,900 (2007 census) Glottolog awar1248 | Region Morobe Province ISO 639-3 awx | |
Language family Trans–New Guinea
Finisterre–Huon
Finisterre
Wantoat
Awara | ||
Awara is one of the Finisterre languages of Papua New Guinea. It is part of a dialect chain with Wantoat, but in only 60–70% lexically similar.
Alphabet
In Awara language has 21 letters (Aa, Ää, Bb, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Ss, Tt, Uu, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz), 3 diphthongs (Gw gw, Kw kw, Ng ng) and triphthong (Ngw ngw)
References
Awara language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA