| Language name: | WARIS |
| UPSID number: | 8637 |
| Alternate name(s): | |
| 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 "@ |
| 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. |