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Isirawa language information


Isirawa
Saberi
Native toIndonesia
RegionPapua
Native speakers
1,800 (2000)[1]
Language family
Foja Range
  • Kwerbic
    • Isirawa
Language codes
ISO 639-3srl
Glottologisir1237
ELPIsirawa

Isirawa is a Papuan language spoken by about two thousand people on the north coast of Papua province, Indonesia. It's a local trade language, and use is vigorous. Stephen Wurm (1975) linked it to the Kwerba languages within the Trans–New Guinea family, and it does share about 20% of its vocabulary with neighboring Kwerba languages. However, based on its pronouns, Malcolm Ross (2005) felt he could not substantiate such a link, and left it as a language isolate. The pronouns are not, however, dissimilar from those of Orya–Tor, which Ross links to Kwerba, and Donahue (2002) accept it as a Greater Kwerba language.

  1. ^ Isirawa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

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