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Tawala

A language of Papua New Guinea

ISO 639-3: tbo

Population	20,000 (2000 census).
Region	Milne Bay Province, Alotau District, Awaiama to East Cape, Milne Bay north and south shores, Sideia and Basilaki islands.
Language map	Papua New Guinea, Map 17, reference number 813
Alternate names	Tavara, Tawara
Dialects	Awayama (Awaiama, Awalama), Huhuna, Kehelala (Keherara, East Cape), Lelehudi, Diwinai (Divinai), Labe (Rabe), Yaleba (Wagawaga, Gwawili, Gwavili, Ealeba), Bohilai (Bohira’i, Basilaki), Sideya (Sideia).
Classification	Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Western Oceanic, Papuan Tip, Nuclear, North Papuan Mainland-D’Entrecasteaux, Are-Taupota, Taupota
Language use	Trade language in Milne Bay area. 40% monolingual. Also use Dobu [dob], Suau [swp], Motu [meu], Wedau [wed], or English.
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 50%–75%. Literacy rate in L2: 50%–75%. Grammar. NT: 1985.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	SVO. Fishermen; peasant agriculturalists; industrialists: copra production; palm oil.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

EZARD, Bryan, author. 1978. "Classificatory prefixes of the Massim cluster."

EZARD, Bryan, author. 1978. "Insights on cohesion from Tawala."

EZARD, Bryan, author. 1980. "Reduplication in Tawala."  

EZARD, Bryan, author. 1982. Tawala derivational prefixes: a semantic perspective.

EZARD, Bryan, author. 1984. The functional domains of passives.

EZARD, Bryan, author. 1992. "Tawala derivational prefixes: a semantic perspective."

EZARD, Bryan, author. 1992. Tawala Organised Phonology Data.  

EZARD, Bryan, author. 1997. A grammar of Tawala: an Austronesian language of the Milne Bay area, Papua New Guinea.

EZARD, Bryan, author. Available: 2009; Created: 1980. Food and language: an ethno-linguistic study in Tawala.  

EZARD, Bryan, author. Available: 2009; Created: 1980. Tawala parts of speech.  

EZARD, Bryan, author. Available: 2009; Created: 1980. Towards Tawala reflexes of Proto Oceanic.  

EZARD, Bryan, author. Available: 2009; Created: 1980-11. Tawala verb classes: a pilot study.  

EZARD, Bryan, author. Available: 2009; Created: 1981-10. The Tawala dialects: an initial enquiry.  

EZARD, Bryan, author. Available: 2009; Created: 1984. The Tawala language, volume 1: An introduction with helps for language learning.  

EZARD, Bryan, author. Available: 2012; Created: 1980-10. Far, far away: An analysis of Tawala adjectives based on the article “Where have all the adjectives gone?”.  

EZARD, Bryan; EZARD, Janet, authors. Available: 2009; Created: 1974-09. Tentative Tawala phonemics.  

EZARD, Bryan; ROBERT, Yailo, authors. 1995. "Tawala."

HEALEY, Alan, editor. 1974. Three studies in languages of eastern Papua.