Sawi or Sawuy is a
language of the
Sawi people of the
Trans–New Guinea phylum spoken in
sago swamps in the southwestern parts of the Indonesian province of
Papua. Of the neighboring languages, it is most closely related to the
Awyu languages
The Awyu languages are a cluster of Papuan languages
The Papuan languages are the non- Austronesian and non- Australian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, as well as neighbouring isl ...
to the east.
[Voorhoeve 1971: 89-90.]
Sawi is an
inflecting language and uses both inflections of the stem and suffixes to indicate person, number, and tense.
References
External links
* Timothy Usher, New Guinea World
Sawi
Languages of western New Guinea
Greater Awyu languages
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