OLAC resources in and about the Pawaia language

ISO 639-3: pwa

The combined catalog of all OLAC participants contains the following resources that are relevant to this language:

• Primary texts
• Lexical resources
• Language descriptions
• Other resources about the language
• Other resources in the language

Other known names and dialect names: Aurama, Hauruha, Pavaia, Sira, Tudahwe, Turoha, Uri, Yasa

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Primary texts

1. ONLINEReport on Arthur Capell Estate by Peter Newton. Peter Newton. 1995. Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC). oai:paradisec.org.au:AC1-000

Lexical resources

1. ONLINEPawaia Swadesh List. n.a. n.d. The Rosetta Project: A Long Now Foundation Library of Human Language. oai:rosettaproject.org:rosettaproject_pwa_swadesh-1
2. ONLINEtransnewguinea.org Resources for Pawaia. Simon J. Greenhill (editor). 2025. transnewguinea.org (transnewguinea.org). oai:transnewguinea.org:pwa.2

Language descriptions

1. A comparative study of Kuman and Pawaian. Trefry, D. 1969. Pacific linguistics. Series B ; no.13. oai:gial.edu:24983
2. Orthography and phonology database : Highlands and Papuan Regions. Hemmilä, Ritva; Summer Institute of Linguistics. Papua New Guinea Branch. 1999. Data papers on Papua New Guinea languages ; v. 44. oai:gial.edu:28275
3. ONLINEGlottolog 5.3 Resources for Pawaia. n.a. 2026. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. oai:glottolog.org:pawa1255
4. ONLINEA Comparative Study of Kuman and Pawaian. Trefry, D. 2026. WALS Online. oai:refdb.wals.info:1333
5. ONLINEThe Teberan Language Family. MacDonald, G. E. 2026. WALS Online. oai:refdb.wals.info:520
6. ONLINEPhonological considerations of Pawaia, a Non-Austronesian language of New Guinea. Trefry, D. 2026. WALS Online. oai:refdb.wals.info:840
7. ONLINEPawaia Organised Phonology Data. n.a. 2011. SIL International. oai:sil.org:42244
8. ONLINEWALS Online Resources for Pawaian. n.a. 2026. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. oai:wals.info:paw
9. ONLINELAPSyD Online page for Pawaian, Oyobe dialect. Maddieson, Ian. 2009. www.lapsyd.ddl.cnrs.fr. oai:www.lapsyd.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr:src647

Other resources about the language

1. ONLINEPawaia: a language of Papua New Guinea. n.a. 2018. SIL International. oai:ethnologue.com:pwa
2. ONLINEPavaia (Purari River). Arthur Capell (compiler). n.d. Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC). oai:paradisec.org.au:AC1-519

Other resources in the language

1. ONLINEOrthography and phonology database : highlands and Papuan Regions. Hemmil*a, Ritva; Summer Institute of Linguistics. 1999. Data papers on Papua New Guinea languages ; v. 44. oai:pacific.library.manoa.hawaii.edu:1808241
2. ONLINELinguistics papers; I: General, II: Indonesia and New Guinea. Capell, Arthur. 1972. Oceania linguistic monographs, no. 15. oai:pacific.library.manoa.hawaii.edu:3376424

Other known names and dialect names: Aurama, Hauruha, Pavaia, Sira, Tudahwe, Turoha, Uri, Yasa

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