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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 639-3 rac
Glottolog rasa1243
ELP Rasawa

Rasawa is a Papuan language of Indonesia. It is spoken in Rasawa village in Oudate District, Waropen Regency. [2]

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

References

  1. ^ Rasawa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ 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). Vol. A-85. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 133–236. ISBN  0858834421.
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