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...

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)...

Yawa may refer to: Yawa language (Papuan) Yawa languages (Austronesian) Gugu Yawa language, Australia Yahua language, Amazon Xolile Yawa Yawa Hansen-Quao...

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....

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...

Saweru is a Papuan language closely related to Yawa of central Yapen Island in Geelvink (Cenderawasih) Bay, Indonesia, of which it is sometimes considered...

Taushiro, almost extinct Omurano Indigenous languages of South America Kaufman, Terrence. (1994). The native languages of South America. In C. Mosley & R. E...

branch of the Austronesian language family Yapen languages (Papuan), also known as Yawa languages, an unclassified small language family This disambiguation...

Bougainville, which are all ergative. Word order in Yuat languages, like in the Yawa languages, is rigidly SOV, whereas in many other Papuan families,...

Papuan languages; however, the relationship would be a distant one, and later linguists such as Mark Donohue considered Yawa to be a language isolate...