Waris language

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Waris
Spoken in:	Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea; Papua province, Indonesia
Total speakers:	4,000
Language family:	Border  Waris   Waris
Writing system:	Latin alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	paa
ISO 639-3:	wrs
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-​based pronunciation key.

Waris or Walsa is a Papuan language spoken by about 2,500 people around Wasengla, Amanab District, Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea, as well as about 1,500 across the border in the Indonesian province of Papua.

Contents 1 Phonology 1.1 Vowels 1.1.1 Monophthongs 1.1.2 Diphthongs and triphthongs 1.2 Consonants 2 References 3 External links

[edit] Phonology

[edit] Vowels

[edit] Monophthongs

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Close-mid	e
Mid		ə
Open-mid	ɛ		ɔ
Near-open	æ
Open		a	ɒ

[edit] Diphthongs and triphthongs

	Vi	Vɛ	Vɑ	Vɒ	Vɔ	Vu
iV			iɑ
ɛV					ɛɔ	ɛu
ɑV	ɑi				ɑɔ
ɒV	ɒi
ɔV	ɔi		ɔɑ
uV	ui	uɛ	uɑ	uɒ

There are two triphthongs, /ɔɑi/ and /uɛu/.

[edit] Consonants

		Bilabial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar
Stop	Voiceless	p	t		k
	Prenasalised	mb	ⁿd		ŋg
Nasal		m	n
Fricative	Voiceless		s		x
	Voiced	β
Trill			r
Lateral approximant			l
Approximant		w		j

[edit] References

• Brown, Robert (1981). "Semantic aspects of some Waris predications", in Karl J. Franklin: Syntax and semantics in Papua New Guinea languages. Ukarumpa: Summer Institute of Linguistics, 93–123. 
• Brown, Robert (1988). "Waris case system and verb classification". Language and Linguistics in Melanesia 19: 37–80. 
• Brown, Robert; Honoratus Wai (1986). Diksenari: Walsana moa Pisinna moa Englisna moa (A short dictionary of the Walsa [Waris] language, Tok Pisin and English). Ukarumpa: Summer Institute of Linguistics. 

[edit] External links

• Ethnologue report for language code:wrs