https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/ 2026-04-29T01:16:39+00:00 https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/ https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/_media/wiki/dokuwiki.svg text/html 2024-06-25T17:41:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/families/papuan-gulf/tua-river/pawaia?rev=1719337266&do=diff Pawaia Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute Situation Pawaia, known to its speakers as /hũe/ (“speech”,) is spoken by 2,000-2,600 people (1972) in two dialect groups living along the Pio and Purari rivers in Papua New Guinea's Gulf and Simbu provinces (Trefry 1969: 1, 1972: 106.). Trefry describes the northern dialect, spoken by the Oyobe people of the Karimui Plateau (MacDonald 1973:117-118.) text/html 2024-06-25T17:41:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/families/papuan-gulf/tua-river/start?rev=1719337266&do=diff Tua River Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute Situation [under construction] The Tua River family, also called Teberan-Pawaian, is comprised of at least four very different widely-spoken languages, Dadibi, Folopa and Pawaia, and Witu…Tua River and Pio River…… tributaries of the Purari around the intersection of Papua New Guinea's Gulf, Southern Highlands and Simbu provinces.…MacDonald (1973: CITE.) text/html 2024-06-25T17:41:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/families/papuan-gulf/tua-river/witu?rev=1719337266&do=diff Witu Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute Situation Witu (Wiru) is spoken by 15,000 people (1967) living in and around the foothills to the south of Mount Ialibu in the Pangia subdistrict of Papua New Guinea's Southern Highlands province (Kerr 1967: 1.)