Rasawa language

Rasawa is a Papuan language of Indonesia. It is spoken in Rasawa village in Oudate District, Waropen Regency.[3]

Rasawa
RegionRasawa village in Oudate District, Waropen Regency, Papua, Indonesia
Native speakers
(200 cited 1987)[1]
Lakes Plain
  • Wapoga
    • Rasawa–Saponi ?
      • Rasawa
Language codes
ISO 639-3rac
Glottolograsa1243[2]

Rasawa shares half of its basic vocabulary with the Saponi language.

References
  1. Rasawa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Rasawa". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Clouse, Duane A. (1997). "Towards a reconstruction and reclassification of the Lakes Plain languages of Irian Jaya". In Karl Franklin (ed.). Papers in Papuan linguistics no. 2 (PDF). A-85. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 133–236. ISBN 0858834421.
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