Yawa may refer to:

Language

Yawa language Yawa (Yava) is the Papuan language of central Yapen Island Yapen (also Japan, Jobi) is an island of Papua, Indonesia. The Yapen Strait separates Yapen and the Biak Islands to the north. It is in Cenderawasih Bay off the north-western coast ...

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Yawa languages The Yawa languages, also known as Yapen languages, are a small family of two closely related Papuan languages, Yawa (or Yava) and Saweru, which are often considered to be divergent dialects of a single language (and thus a language isolate). ...

(Austronesian) *

Gugu Yawa language The Paman languages are an Australian language family spoken on Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. First noted by Kenneth Hale, Paman is noteworthy for the profound phonological changes which have affected some of its descendants. Classif ...

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Yahua language The Yagua language is spoken primarily in northeastern Peru by the Yagua people. As of 2005, it appears that a few speakers may have migrated across the Peruvian-Colombian border near the town of Leticia. A third of the population is monoling ...

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People

Xolile Yawa Xolile Yawa (born 29 September 1962 in Lady Frere, Eastern Cape) is a retired athlete from South Africa - ZA. He specialised in long-distance running, including marathons. He is best known as the winner of 1993 Berlin Marathon. At the 1992 Summ ...

Yawa Hansen-Quao Yawa Hansen-Quao (born in Accra) is a Ghanaian founder, social entrepreneur and a feminist. She sits on the Board of Directors of Ashesi University, serves on the advisory board, Women's Institute for Global Leadership and Benedictine University. ...

Tōsanjin Yawa The , also called the is a book of '' yōkai'' illustrated by Japanese artist Takehara Shunsensai, published about 1841. The book was intended as a followup to Toriyama Sekien's '' Gazu Hyakki Yagyō'' series. Like those books, it is a superna ...

Places

Yawa, Central African Republic Yawa is a village situated in Lobaye Lobaye is one of the 16 prefectures of the Central African Republic. Its capital is Mbaïki. Emperor Duy Tân of Vietnam died here on December 26, 1945 in a plane crash. David Dacko, the first and third presid ...

, a village in Lobaye Prefecture.

Other

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