Geographic
distribution: New Guinea | Glottolog: awin1249 | |
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Linguistic classification: Trans–New Guinea
Awin–Pa Subdivisions: Aekyowm (Awin)
Pare (Pa) | ||
The Awin–Pa or Awin–Pare languages are a small family of the Trans–New Guinea languages (TNG) in the classification of Malcolm Ross. Stephen Wurm (1975) added them to an expanded Central and South New Guinea branch of TNG, a position reversed by Ross (2005).
The languages are just two, Aekyowm (Awin) and Pare (Pa), and closely related to each other, perhaps even a dialect cluster. The pronouns appear to have been:
(The dual and plural forms are rather uncertain.)
References
Awin–Pa languages Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA