Pawaia language

Pawaia
Region	Papua New Guinea
Native speakers	(4,000 cited 1991)[1]
Language family	Trans–New Guinea ? Pawaia
Dialects	Aurama (Turoha, Uri) Hauruha
Language codes
ISO 639-3	pwa
Glottolog	pawa1255[2]
Map: The Pawaia language of New Guinea   The Pawaia language   Other Trans–New Guinea languages   Other Papuan languages   Austronesian languages   Uninhabited

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.

References

1. Pawaia at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Pawaia". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

• Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". In Andrew Pawley; Robert Attenborough; Robin Hide; Jack Golson. Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 15–66. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782.