Language name: |
WARIS |
UPSID number: |
8637 |
Alternate name(s): |
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Classification: |
Papuan, Trans-New Guinea |
This language has |
22 segments |
Its Frequency index is |
0.401531949 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
The language has these sounds: |
p
"t
k
mb
"nd
Ng
x
B
"s
"rr
"l
j
w
i
e
E
aa
a
a_)
"o
u
"@
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Comment: |
Waris is spoken in Amanab District, West Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, and adjoining areas of Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Brown (1988) provides only a list of phoneme symbols with few definitions. /a/ is described as low front but seems more likely to be central as there are two other vowels in the lower front region. |
Source(s): |
Brown, R. 1988. Waris Case System and Verb Classification. Language and Linguistics in Melanesia 19: 37-80. |