Rawa language
Appearance
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Finisterre languages of Papua New Guinea
Rawa | |
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Karo | |
Native to | Papua New Guinea |
Region | Morobe Province |
Native speakers | (12,000 cited 1998)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | rwo |
Glottolog | rawa1267 |
Rawa (Erawa, Erewa, Raua) is one of the Finisterre languages of Papua New Guinea. The two dialects, Rawa and Karo, are on opposite sides of the Finisterre Range.
Names
[edit ]The alternate names for Rawa are Erawa, Erewa, Raua and Karo.[2]
Phonology
[edit ]Consonants
[edit ]Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal |
---|---|---|---|---|
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |
Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k |
aspirated | ph | th | kh | |
prenasal | mb | nd | ŋɡ | |
Fricative | s | h | ||
Rhotic | r | |||
Approximant | lateral | l | ||
central | w | j |
- Voiceless stops /p, t, k/ are heard as voiced stops [b, d, ɡ] in the Karo dialect.[3]
Vowels
[edit ]Front | Central | Back |
---|---|---|
High | i | u |
High-mid | e | o |
Low-mid | ɔ | |
Low | a |
References
[edit ]- ^ Rawa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ "Glottolog 5.1 - Rawa". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2025年02月12日.
- ^ Toland, Norma & Donald (1991). Reference grammar of the Karo/Rawa language. Ukarumpa: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
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