====== Oweina ======

Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute

===== Situation =====
Oweina (Owena,) or Oweina-Waisara, is spoken by 334 people (1973) living in two villages, Oweina and Waisara, in the Obura-Wonenara district of Papua New Guinea's Eastern Highlands province, just east of its nearest and far-better documented relative Awa and south of the more distantly-related Tairora languages (Lloyd 1973: 93, Gajdusek 1980: 150-151.)

===== Sources =====

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Gajudsek (1980) brief ethnological description and a few words for Oweina-Waisara

Loving (n.d.) survey vocabulary provided in digitalized form by Paul Whitehouse via the Summer Institute of Linguistics, Ukarumpa

===== Phonology =====
There is no published phonology of Oweina.

===== Pronouns =====
Loving (via Whitehouse) gives pronouns for Oweina as follows:

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|1 sg.|nenoko             |
|2 sg.|enɑʔ(ompo/se)      |
|3 sg.|miβɐⁱse            |
|1 pl.|ijokɐetenɑ:hɾo     |
|2 pl.|itenɐⁱsɐ           |
|3 pl.|misɐ               |
|1 dl.|tenɐɾɑ             |
|2 dl.|tɐⁱsɐ ɾenɑ\\ ɾɑmono|
|3 dl.|muʔnɑⁱntɐ          |

===== Verbal morphology =====
Nothing is known about Oweina verbal morphology besides what little can be gleaned from the third person forms in Loving's vocabulary.\\
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