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
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.