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Kewa, West

A language of Papua New Guinea

ISO 639-3: kew

Population	45,000 (2000 census).
Region	Southern Highlands Province, Kagua and Mendi districts.
Language map	Papua New Guinea, Map 9, reference number 413
Alternate names	Pasuma
Classification	Trans-New Guinea, Engan, Angal-Kewa
Language development	Dictionary. Grammar. NT: 1973–2004.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	SOV. Swidden agriculturalists, some cash crops.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

ALLMAN, Tod Jay, author. 2011. The Translator's Assistant: A Multilingual Natural Language Generator.  

FRANKLIN, Joice A., author. 1977. "Vernacular literacy: General remarks."

FRANKLIN, Joice A.; FRANKLIN, Karl J.; KIRAPEASI, Yapua, authors. Available: 2008; Created: 1973. Learn West Kewa.  

FRANKLIN, Joice A.; FRANKLIN, Karl J.; KIRAPEASI, Yapua, compilers. 1978. A Kewa dictionary, with supplementary grammatical and anthropological materials.

FRANKLIN, Joice A.; FRANKLIN, Karl J.; KIRAPEASI, Yapua, compilers. 2006-. A Kewa dictionary, with supplementary grammatical and anthropological materials.  

FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 1968. The dialects of Kewa.

FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 1969. A grammar and dialect study of Kewa, New Guinea.

FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 1970. "Metaphorical songs in Kewa."

FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 1971. "Practical considerations of folk taxonomies."  

FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 1971. A grammar of Kewa, New Guinea.

FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 1972. "A ritual pandanus language of New Guinea."

FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 1972. "Why a newsheet?."

FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 1974. "A diachronic note on Mendi vowels."  

FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 1974. "Kewa."

FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 1975. "A Kewa religious argot (New Guinea)."

FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 1975. "Nasalisation in Kewa dialects."  

FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 1977. "The Kewa language in culture and society."

FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 1978. Lexical range, idiom transfer, and related problems in Pidgin English to Kewa translation.

FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 1979. "Interpreting values cross-culturally ‘with special reference to insulting people’!."

FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 1980. "The particles ‘i’ and ‘na’ in Tok Pisin."  

FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 1981. "Creating technical expressions in the vernacular."

FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 1981. "Existential and pro-verbs in Kewa."

FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 1983. "Some features of interclausal reference in Kewa."

FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 1988. Review of: Fabricated world: An interpretation of Kewa tales, by John LeRoy.

FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 1988. Review of: Kewa tales, by John LeRoy.

FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 1989. "Jack Hides’ visit to the Kewa area."

FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 1991. "Kewa."

FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 1993. Review of: Mararoko: a study in Melanesian religion, by Mary N. MacDonald.

FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 1994. "Synchronic and diachronic observations on Kewa and proto-Engan deictics."

FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 2003. "Tagmemic insights on Kewa numbers and names."

FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 2003. Some Kewa metaphors: body parts as automobile parts.  

FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 2010. "Ukarumpa and Jerusalem : A tale of two cities?."  

FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 2011. "Adapting the West Kewa New Testament to East Kewa."

FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 2012. "Kewa figures of speech: Understanding the code."

FRANKLIN, Karl J.; HARDIN, Karol J., authors. 2012. "Complaints in Kewa letters."

FRANKLIN, Karl J.; KIRAPEASI, Yapua, compilers. 2009. A Tok Pisin and West Kewa common usage diglot dictionary = Tok Pisin na Tok Kewa diksenari (pisini agaapara adaa agaa laapo i buku).  

FRANKLIN, Karl J.; STEFANIW, Roman, authors. 1992. "The ‘Pandanus languages’ of the Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea – a further report."

FRANKLIN, Karl, author. Available: 2012; Created: 2000-08. The Word in Kewa.  

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

Vernacular Publications

[primer leaflets]. 1969.

[supplementary reader]. 1969.

Adaa agaa buku 1-3. 1971.

Adaa agale buku. 1976.

Agaa repo buku. 1973.

Akuanuna iti remaanu buku. 1972.

Naa bi aapiya?. 1976.

Ne nane yae luabu buku. 1974.

Niaana sunu regepeae ia su medaloma. 1974.

Pepena oyae luabu buku. 1972.

Pipaa tape buku 1-3 (Workbook). 1973.

Pisini agaapara adaa agaa laapo i buku (Common usage dictionary: Diglot edition in Pidgin and Kewa languages). 1975.  

Teacher’s guide for Kewa primers and workbooks. 1973.

Tok save long ol kain liklik tok Kewa. 1975.