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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:

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.