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    The Yawa languages, also known as Yapen languages, are a small family of two closely related Papuan languages, Yawa (or Yava) and Saweru, which are often...
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  • Yawa (Yava) is the Papuan language of central Yapen Island in Geelvink (Cenderawasih) Bay, Indonesia. Alternative names are Iau (not the same as Iau language)...
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  • Yawa may refer to: Yawa language (Papuan) Yawa languages (Austronesian) Gugu Yawa language, Australia Yahua language, Amazon Xolile Yawa Yawa Hansen-Quao...
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    speech', and has been applied to several languages in the Thaypan area. 'Possum language' (Koko-Possum, Gugu Yawa) is another generic name of this area....
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    that the West Papuan languages form one of three branches of an extended West Papuan family that also includes the Yawa languages, and a newly proposed...
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  • Saweru is a Papuan language closely related to Yawa of central Yapen Island in Geelvink (Cenderawasih) Bay, Indonesia, of which it is sometimes considered...
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  • Taushiro, almost extinct Omurano Indigenous languages of South America Kaufman, Terrence. (1994). The native languages of South America. In C. Mosley & R. E...
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  • branch of the Austronesian language family Yapen languages (Papuan), also known as Yawa languages, an unclassified small language family This disambiguation...
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  • Bougainville, which are all ergative. Word order in Yuat languages, like in the Yawa languages, is rigidly SOV, whereas in many other Papuan families,...
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    Papuan languages; however, the relationship would be a distant one, and later linguists such as Mark Donohue considered Yawa to be a language isolate...
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