Sawi or Sawuy is a language of the Sawi people of the Trans–New Guinea phylum spoken in sago swamps in the southwestern parts of the Indonesian province of Papua. Of the neighboring languages, it is most closely related to the Awyu languages to the east.[2]
| Sawi | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Papua |
| Ethnicity | Sawi |
Native speakers | (3,500 cited 1993)[1] |
Trans–New Guinea
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | saw |
| Glottolog | sawi1257 |
Sawi is an inflecting language and uses both inflections of the stem and suffixes to indicate person, number, and tense.
References
edit- ^ Sawi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Voorhoeve 1971: 89-90.
External links
edit- Timothy Usher, New Guinea World, Sawi
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