Awtuw language

Awtuw consonants are:

Awtuw vowels are:

Pronouns are:{{cite book |last=Foley |first=William A. |author-link=William A. Foley |editor1-last=Palmer |editor1-first=Bill |date=2018 |title=The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide |chapter=The Languages of the Sepik-Ramu Basin and Environs |series= The World of Linguistics |volume=4 |location=Berlin |publisher=De Gruyter Mouton |pages=197–432 |isbn=978-3-11-028642-7}}

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Awtuw has a very rich verbal morphology, with 8 prefixal slots encoding tense, aspect, modality, polarity, subject number and reciprocal.{{Cite thesis |last=Feldman |first=Harry |title=A grammar of Awtuw |date=1983 |degree=PhD |publisher=Australian National University |hdl=1885/132945 |doi=10.25911/5D723CE831842 |hdl-access=free |doi-access=free }}). Six of these slots contain prefixes that have cognates in Pouye.

{{cite journal|author=Jacques, Guillaume|year=2024|title=Essai de comparaison de la morphologie verbale des langues ram (awtuw et pouye), famille sepik.|journal=Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris|volume=118|issue=1|pages=275–288|doi=10.2143/BSL.118.1.3292785 |url=https://hal.science/hal-04590309v1}}

The suffixal chain contains recently grammaticalized suffixes encoding associated motion, aspect, benefactive, and various unusual categories such as celerative -imya 'quickly' as in (1) (grammaticalized from the verb imya 'run'),{{cite journal|author=Jacques, Guillaume|year=2024|title=Celerative: the encoding of speed in verbal morphology.|journal=STUF|volume=77|issue=2|pages=261–282|doi=10.1515/stuf-2024-2006 |url=https://hal.science/hal-04590309v1|url-access=subscription}} simulative -panya 'pretend',{{cite journal|author=Jacques, Guillaume|year=2023|title=Simulative derivations in cross-linguistic perspective and their diachronic sources.|journal=Studies in Language|volume=47|issue=4|pages=957–988|doi=10.1075/sl.22054.jac |url=https://hal.science/hal-04217961|url-access=subscription}} and periodic tense (adauroral -alw 'until dawn').{{cite journal|author=Jacques, Guillaume|year=2023|title=Periodic tense markers in the world's languages and their sources.|journal=Folia Linguistica |volume=57|issue=3|pages=539–562|doi=10.1515/flin-2023-2013|url=https://shs.hal.science/halshs-04239547}}

{{interlinear|number=(1)|glossing=link|abbreviations=PST:Past:Past tense;CELER:Celerative;masc:masculine

|Rey aeye rokr’-imy’-e.

|{{gcl|3sg}}:{{gcl|MASC}} food cook-CELER-PST

|'He cooked the food quickly.' (Feldman 1983: 122–123)}}

{{Reflist}}

• {{Cite thesis |last=Feldman |first=Harry |title=A grammar of Awtuw |date=1983 |degree=PhD |publisher=Australian National University |hdl=1885/132945 |doi=10.25911/5D723CE831842 |hdl-access=free |doi-access=free }}
• {{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/grammarofawtuw0000feld |title=A Grammar of Awtuw |last=Feldman |first=Harry |date=1986 |publisher=Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University |isbn=0-85883-342-5 |series=Pacific Linguistics Series B - No. 94 |location=Canberra |doi=10.15144/pl-b94 |hdl=1885/145411 |doi-access=free |hdl-access=free |url-access=registration }}
• Whitehead, Carl R. 1992. Review of: a grammar of Awtuw, by Harry Feldman.
• [https://archive.org/details/rosettaproject_kmn_swadesh-1 Rosetta Project:Awtuw Swadesh List]

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