Sepik Iwam language
Sepik Iwam, or Yawenian, is a language of Papua New Guinea. It is the lexical basis of the Hauna trade pidgin.
Sepik Iwam | |
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Yawenian | |
Region | East Sepik Province |
Native speakers | 2,500 (2000 census)[1] |
Sepik
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | iws |
Glottolog | sepi1255 [2] |
Coordinates: 4.29131°S 142.006892°E |
Hauna pidgin | |
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Region | East Sepik Province |
Native speakers | None |
Iwam-based pidgin | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | None (mis ) |
Glottolog | haun1238 [3] |
It is spoken in villages such as Iniok (4.29131°S 142.006892°E) in Tunap-Hunstein Rural LLG of East Sepik Province.[4][5]
Grammar
Sepik Iwam subject agreement suffixes are:[6]
singular dual plural masculine *-ən *-o *-əm feminine *-a
The structure of this subject agreement paradigm can be traced back to Proto-Sepik, although the morphemes themselves do not seem to be directly related to the reconstructed Proto-Sepik forms. (See also Sepik languages#Gender.)
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gollark: What is big narf? Bees enabled.
gollark: But you can still access the main content, and osmarks internet radio™, and the random stuff API!
gollark: osmarks.tk now has a yggdrasil subdomain with its AAAA record pointed at my yggdrasil IP, so all zero people using that can now connect to a (HTTP-only, missing many backend services) osmarks.tk!
gollark: Anyway, so you can... peer with me? and access osmarks.tk.
References
- Sepik Iwam at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Sepik Iwam". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Hauna Trade Language". 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.
- Foley, William A. (2018). "The Languages of the Sepik-Ramu Basin and Environs". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 197–432. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.
Further reading
- "Organised Phonology Data" (PDF). Cite journal requires
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