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Pawaia | |
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Region | Papua New Guinea |
Native speakers | 6,000 (2000)[1] |
Papuan Gulf ?
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ISO 639-3 | pwa |
Glottolog | pawa1255 |
ELP | Pawaia |
Map: The Pawaia language of New Guinea
The Pawaia language
Trans–New Guinea languages
Other Papuan languages
Austronesian languages
Uninhabited |
Pawaia, also known as Sira, Tudahwe, Yasa, is a Papuan language that forms a tentative independent branch of the Trans–New Guinea family in the classification of Malcolm Ross (2005).