ISO 639-3 pwa | Native speakers (4,000 cited 1991) Glottolog pawa1255 | |
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Dialects Aurama (Turoha, Uri)Hauruha | ||
Pawaia, also known as Sira, Tudahwe, Yasa, is a Trans–New Guinea language that forms a tentative independent branch of that family in the classification of Malcolm Ross (2005). Although Pawaia has proto-Trans–New Guinea vocabulary, Ross considers its inclusion questionable on available evidence.
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Pawaia language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA