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Hewa

A language of Papua New Guinea

ISO 639-3: ham

Population	2,150 (1986 SIL). 1,600 monolinguals. 290 in Yoliapi (1982 SIL).
Region	Southern Highlands Province, Koroba District; Enga Province, Lagaip District; Sandaun Province, Telefomin District. Lagaip River area, mountains north of Duna [duc] and Ipili [ipi] areas, south of Lagaip River northward to Central Range high peaks (political and physical boundary between Sepik region and the highlands).
Language maps	Papua New Guinea, Map 5, reference number 226 Papua New Guinea, Map 6, reference number 226
Alternate names	Sisimin
Dialects	Upper Lagaip, Central Lagaip, Lower Lagaip, North Hewa.
Classification	Sepik, Sepik Hill, Sanio
Language use	Vigorous. All domains. All ages. View use of Hewa as normal. Also use Tok Pisin [tpi], Ipili, Duna, Oksapmin [opm], or English.
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: Below 2%. Literacy rate in L2: 5%–15%. 25 or fewer can read it, 10 or fewer can write it. Bible portions: 1985.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	Seminomadic. SOV. Swidden agriculturalists; hunter-gatherers traditionally. Traditional religion, Christian.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

COCHRAN, Anne M., author. 1968. "Notes on Yoliapi."  

VOLLRATH, Karen, author. 1991. "An initial report of Hewa literacy methods."

VOLLRATH, Karen; VOLLRATH, Paul W., authors. 1981. "Developing a strategy for Hewa literacy."

VOLLRATH, Paul W., author. 1985. Hewa phonemes: a tentative statement.  

VOLLRATH, Paul, author. 1992. Hewa Organised Phonology Data.