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
Yawenian
RegionEast Sepik Province
Native speakers
2,500 (2000 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3iws
Glottologsepi1255[2]
Coordinates: 4.29131°S 142.006892°E / -4.29131; 142.006892 (Iniok)
Hauna pidgin
RegionEast Sepik Province
Native speakers
None
Iwam-based pidgin
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologhaun1238[3]

It is spoken in villages such as Iniok (4.29131°S 142.006892°E / -4.29131; 142.006892 (Iniok)) in Tunap-Hunstein Rural LLG of East Sepik Province.[4][5]

Phonology

Sepik Iwam consonants are:[6]

ptk
bdɡ
sh
mn
r
wj

Sepik Iwam vowels are:[6]

iu
eəo
a

Pronouns

Sepik Iwam pronouns:[6]:282

sgdupl
1 kakərarkəram
2 kəkowkom
3m si sow səm
3f sa

Grammar

Sepik Iwam subject agreement suffixes are:[6]

singulardualplural
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.)

gollark: Interesting. Very interesting.
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
  1. Sepik Iwam at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Sepik Iwam". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
  6. 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.

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