Rasawa language

Rasawa is a Papuan language of Indonesia. It is spoken in Rasawa village in Oudate District, Waropen Regency.[3]

Rasawa
RegionRasawa village in Oudate District, Waropen Regency, Papua, Indonesia
Native speakers
(200 cited 1987)[1]
Lakes Plain
  • Wapoga
    • Rasawa–Saponi ?
      • Rasawa
Language codes
ISO 639-3rac
Glottolograsa1243
ELPRasawa[2]

Rasawa shares half of its basic vocabulary with the Saponi language.

References
  1. Rasawa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Endangered Languages Project data for Rasawa.
  3. Clouse, Duane A. (1997). "Towards a reconstruction and reclassification of the Lakes Plain languages of Irian Jaya". In Karl Franklin (ed.). Papers in Papuan linguistics no. 2 (PDF). A-85. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 133–236. ISBN 0858834421.
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