Waris language

Waris language

Infobox Language
name=Waris
region=Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea; Papua province, Indonesia
speakers=4,000
familycolor=Papuan
fam1=Border
fam2=Waris
script=Latin alphabet
iso2=paa
iso3=wrs

Waris or Walsa is a Papuan language spoken by about 2,500 people around Wasengla, Amanab District, Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea, as well as about 1,500 across the border in the Indonesian province of Papua.

Phonology

Vowels

Monophthongs

References

*cite book |last=Brown |first=Robert |year=1981 |chapter=Semantic aspects of some Waris predications |editor=Karl J. Franklin |title=Syntax and semantics in Papua New Guinea languages |pages=93–123 |location=Ukarumpa |publisher=Summer Institute of Linguistics
*cite journal |last=Brown |first=Robert |year=1988 |title=Waris case system and verb classification |journal=Language and Linguistics in Melanesia |volume=19 |pages=37–80
*cite book |last=Brown |first=Robert |coauthors=Honoratus Wai |year=1986 |title=Diksenari: Walsana moa Pisinna moa Englisna moa (A short dictionary of the Walsa [Waris] language, Tok Pisin and English) |location=Ukarumpa |publisher=Summer Institute of Linguistics

External links

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=wrs Ethnologue report for language code:wrs]


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