Sawi language (Papuan)
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Awyu language spoken in Indonesia
| Sawi | |
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| Native to | Papua |
| Ethnicity | Sawi |
Native speakers | (3,500 cited 1993)[1] |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | saw |
| Glottolog | sawi1257 |
Sawi or Sawuy is a
Awyu languages to the east.[2]
Sawi is an inflecting language and uses both inflections of the stem and suffixes to indicate person, number, and tense.
References
- ^ Sawi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Voorhoeve 1971: 89-90.
External links
- Timothy Usher, New Guinea World, Sawi
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Ok–Oksapmin |
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Somahai |
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