Karawa language
Karawa (Bulawa) is a language spoken in Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea, by decreasing number of people. Speakers are shifting to Pouye, which is closely related (67% similar lexically). It is spoken in the single village of Pulwa (Bulawa) (3.665801°S 142.014408°E) in East Wapei Rural LLG, Sandaun Province.[3][4]
| Karawa | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Sandaun Province |
Native speakers | 63 (2003)[1] |
Sepik languages
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | xrw |
| Glottolog | kara1495[2] |
| Coordinates: 3.665801°S 142.014408°E | |
References
- Karawa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Karawa". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Papua New Guinea languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
- United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
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