Ia Awyu

Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Instritute

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Drabbe (1950) grammar and (pp. 131-142) 408 comparative terms for Sjiàgha

Drabbe (1954: 231-255) 100 comparative terms for Sjiàgha

Drabbe (1959:162-181) 431 comparative terms for Sjiàgha

Voorhoeve (1975: 375-376) brief general description of Syiagha

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Drabbe (1950: 94-96) gives 16 consonants and 6 vowels for Sjiàgha as follows:

Drabbe (1950: 99-102) gives Sjiàgha pronouns in two case forms as follows:

Possessives are preposed to the nominals they modify. They may be found in prefixed form before some kin terms, e.g. /a'mutu/ “son”, /n-a'mutu/ “my son”, /'otob-ra/ “daughter”, /w-'otob-ra/ “his daughter,” /a'jɛ/ “father”, /gaɣ-a'jɛ/ “your (pl.) father” (p. 102.)

Drabbe (1950: 104-105) gives six numbers for Sjiàgha as follows:

According to Drabbe, /bed-afi/ in the term for “five” means “one hand.”

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Attestations in the charts which follow are drawn from  Drabbe (1950: 108-129.)

As in other Digul River languags, there is no distinction between second and third person forms (q.v. de Vries, Wester and van Heuvel 2012: 282, 296):

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