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Awa

A language of Papua New Guinea

ISO 639-3awb

Population  2,050 (2003 SIL).
Region  Eastern Highlands Province, Okapa and Kainantu districts.
Language map  Papua New Guinea, Map 10, reference number 455
Alternate names   Mobuta
Dialects  Tauna, Ilakia, Northeast Awa, South Awa.
Classification  Trans-New Guinea, Kainantu-Goroka, Kainantu, Gadsup-Auyana-Awa
Language development  Literacy rate in L1: 25%–50%. Literacy rate in L2: 25%–50%. Dictionary. Grammar. NT: 1974–1997.
Writing system  Latin script.
Comments  SOV. Peasant agriculturalists.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Anonymous. 1992. Awa Organised Phonology Data.  Available online

BEE, Darlene; CHENOWETH, Vida, authors. 1971. "Comparative-generative models of a New Guinea melodic structure."

CAHILL, Michael, author. 2011. "Tonal Diversity in Languages of Papua New Guinea."  Available online

LOVING, Aretta, author. 1962. "On learning monolingually."

LOVING, Aretta, author. Available: 2008; Created: 1965. Possessive prefixes which occur with obligatorily possessed Awa nouns.  Available online

LOVING, Aretta; LOVING, Richard, authors. 1962. "A preliminary survey of Awa noun suffixes."

LOVING, Aretta; LOVING, Richard, compilers. 1975. Awa dictionary.

LOVING, Aretta; MCKAUGHAN, Howard P., authors. 1964. "Awa verbs part II: The internal structure of dependent verbs."  Available online

LOVING, Aretta; MCKAUGHAN, Howard P., authors. 1973. "Possessive prefixes occurring with inalienable Awa nouns."

LOVING, Richard, author. 1966. "Awa phonemes, tonemes, and tonally differentiated allomorphs."

LOVING, Richard, author. 1973. "An outline of Awa grammatical structures."

LOVING, Richard, author. 1973. "Awa kinship terminology and its use."

LOVING, Richard, author. 1973. "The dialects of Awa."

LOVING, Richard, author. 1974. "Notes on Awa kinship terminology."

LOVING, Richard, author. 1976. "Use of bamboo by the Awa."

LOVING, Richard; MCKAUGHAN, Howard P., authors. 1964. "Awa verbs part I: The internal structure of independent verbs."  Available online

LOVING, Richard; MCKAUGHAN, Howard P., authors. 1974. "Awa."

MCELHANON, Kenneth A., editor. 1974. Legends from Papua New Guinea.

MCKAUGHAN, Howard P., compiler. 1973. "Awa texts."

MCKAUGHAN, Howard P., editor. 1973. The languages of the Eastern family of the East New Guinea Highlands stock.

SCOTT, Graham K., author. 1976. Review of: Awa dictionary, by Richard Loving and Aretta Loving, compilers.  Available online

Vernacular Publications

Ahwa sehira 1-6. 1969.

Ahwa sehita 1-6. 1964.

Awahre ehwéh púkúé. 1970.

Itene ménsámehnsá púkue. 1976.

Kabahra ehwehne. 1976.

Kogo itene naruo wire. 1966.

Papua ke Nu Kíni keyabe ehwéhne. 1970.

Písíni ehwéh ahtebáhno. 1973.