Awin–Pa languages

Awin–Pa
Awin–Pare
Geographic
distribution:
New Guinea
Linguistic classification:

Trans–New Guinea

  • Awin–Pa
Subdivisions:
Glottolog: awin1249[1]

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Map: The Awin–Pa languages of New Guinea
  The Awin–Pa languages
  Other Trans–New Guinea languages
  Other Papuan languages
  Austronesian languages
  Uninhabited

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:

sgdupl
1 *na*ni*ne
2 *go*gi*ge
3 *ya

(The dual and plural forms are rather uncertain.)

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Awin–Pa". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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