Awara language

Awara
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionMorobe Province
Ethnicity1,800 (2011)[1]
Native speakers
1,800 (2011)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3awx
Glottologawar1248

Awara is one of the Finisterre languages of Papua New Guinea. It is part of a dialect chain with Wantoat, but in only 60–70% lexically similar. There are around 1900 Awara speakers that live on the southern slopes of the Finisterre Range, they live along the east and west sides of Leron River basin.[2]

  1. ^ a b Awara at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Quigley, Edward; Qingley, Susan (2011). The phonology and verbal system of Awara : a Papuan language of the Finisterre Range, Papua New Guinea. Canberra, A.C.T. : Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. pp. 1–263. ISBN 9780858836303.