Awara language

Awara
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Morobe Province
Native speakers	1,900 (2007 census)^[1]
Language family	Trans–New Guinea Finisterre–Huon Finisterre Wantoat Awara
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`awx`
Glottolog	`awar1248`^[2]

Awara is one of the Finisterre languages of Papua New Guinea. It is part of a dialect chain with Wantoat, but in only 60–70% lexically similar.

References

↑ Awara at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Awara". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.