Rawa language

Rawa
Rawa
Karo
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Morobe Province
Native speakers	(12,000 cited 1998)
Language family	Trans–New Guinea Finisterre–Huon Finisterre Gusap–Mot Rawa; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	rwo
Glottolog	rawa1267

Rawa (Erawa, Erewa, Raua) is one of the Finisterre languages of Papua New Guinea. The two dialects, Rawa and Karo, are on opposite sides of the Finisterre Range.

Names

The alternate names for Rawa are Erawa, Erewa, Raua and Karo.^[2]

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n		ŋ
Plosive	voiceless	p	t		k
	aspirated	pʰ	tʰ		kʰ
	prenasal	ᵐb	ⁿd		ᵑɡ
Fricative			s			h
Rhotic			r
Approximant	lateral		l
Approximant	central	w		j

Voiceless stops /p, t, k/ are heard as voiced stops [b, d, ɡ] in the Karo dialect.^[3]

↑ Rawa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
↑ "Glottolog 5.1 - Rawa". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2025-02-12.
↑ Toland, Norma & Donald (1991). Reference grammar of the Karo/Rawa language. Ukarumpa: Summer Institute of Linguistics.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)

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