Waris language

Waris

Spoken in Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea; Papua province, Indonesia

Native speakers 4,000 (date missing)

Language codes

ISO 639-3 wrs

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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.

Phonology

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

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

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. pp. 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.