Shiaxa
South Awyu
Yenimu
RegionPapua, Indonesia
Native speakers
13,000 including Edera[Ethn is broken again] (2002)[1]
Dialects
  • Shiaxa
  • Yenimu
Language codes
ISO 639-3aws
Glottologsout2941

Shiaxa (Sjiagha) and Yenimu (Jénimu, Oser), together known as South Awyu, are a Papuan language or languages of Papua, Indonesia. Whether they constitute one language or two depends on one's criteria for a 'language'. The two varieties are,[2]

Phonology

Consonants
Labial Alveolar Dorsal
Nasal m n
Plosive voiceless p t k
voiced b d ɡ
Fricative f s x
Tap ɾ
Glide w j
Vowels
Front Central Back
High i u
Mid e o
Low a

References

  1. ^ Shiaxa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ New Guinea World - Awyu
  3. ^ Voorhoeve, C. L. (2001). Proto-Awyu-Dumut phonology II. In Andrew Pawley and Malcolm Ross and Darrell Tryon (eds.), The Boy from Bundaberg: Studies in Melanesian Linguistics in Honor of Tom Dutton: Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. pp. 361–381.