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Awa

A language of Papua New Guinea

ISO 639-3: awb

Population	2,050 (2003 SIL).
Region	Eastern Highlands Province, Okapa and Kainantu districts.
Language map	Papua New Guinea, Map 10, reference number 455
Alternate names	Mobuta
Dialects	Tauna, Ilakia, Northeast Awa, South Awa.
Classification	Trans-New Guinea, Kainantu-Goroka, Kainantu, Gadsup-Auyana-Awa
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 25%–50%. Literacy rate in L2: 25%–50%. Dictionary. Grammar. NT: 1974–1997.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	SOV. Peasant agriculturalists.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Chenoweth, Vida and Darlene Bee. 1971. "Comparative-generative models of a New Guinea melodic structure."

Loving, Aretta and Howard P. McKaughan. 1964. "Awa verbs part II: The internal structure of dependent verbs."  

Loving, Aretta. 1962. "On learning monolingually."

Loving, Aretta. Available: 2008; Created: 1965. Possessive prefixes which occur with obligatorily possessed Awa nouns.  

Loving, Richard and Aretta Loving, compilers. 1975. Awa dictionary.

Loving, Richard and Aretta Loving. 1962. "A preliminary survey of Awa noun suffixes."

Loving, Richard and Howard P. McKaughan. 1964. "Awa verbs part I: The internal structure of independent verbs."  

Loving, Richard and Howard P. McKaughan. 1974. "Awa."

Loving, Richard. 1966. "Awa phonemes, tonemes, and tonally differentiated allomorphs."

Loving, Richard. 1973. "An outline of Awa grammatical structures."

Loving, Richard. 1973. "Awa kinship terminology and its use."

Loving, Richard. 1973. "The dialects of Awa."

Loving, Richard. 1974. "Notes on Awa kinship terminology."

Loving, Richard. 1976. "Use of bamboo by the Awa."

McElhanon, Kenneth A., editor. 1974. Legends from Papua New Guinea.

McKaughan, Howard P. and Aretta Loving. 1973. "Possessive prefixes occurring with inalienable Awa nouns."

McKaughan, Howard P., compiler. 1973. "Awa texts."

McKaughan, Howard P., editor. 1973. The languages of the Eastern family of the East New Guinea Highlands stock.

Scott, Graham K. 1976. Review of: Awa dictionary, by Richard Loving and Aretta Loving, compilers.

Vernacular Publications

Ahwa sehira 1-6. 1969.

Ahwa sehita 1-6. 1964.

Awahre ehwéh púkúé. 1970.

Itene ménsámehnsá púkue. 1976.

Kabahra ehwehne. 1976.

Kogo itene naruo wire. 1966.

Papua ke Nu Kíni keyabe ehwéhne. 1970.

Písíni ehwéh ahtebáhno. 1973.