Awin–Pa languages

Awin–Pa
Awin–Pare
Geographic distribution:	New Guinea
Linguistic classification:	Trans–New Guinea Awin–Pa
Subdivisions:	Aekyowm (Awin) Pare (Pa)
Glottolog:	awin1249[1]
Map: The Awin–Pa languages of New Guinea   The Awin–Pa languages   Other Trans–New Guinea languages   Other Papuan languages   Austronesian languages   Uninhabited

The Awin–Pa or Awin–Pare languages are a small family of the Trans–New Guinea languages (TNG) in the classification of Malcolm Ross. Stephen Wurm (1975) added them to an expanded Central and South New Guinea branch of TNG, a position reversed by Ross (2005).

The languages are just two, Aekyowm (Awin) and Pare (Pa), and closely related to each other, perhaps even a dialect cluster. The pronouns appear to have been:

	sg	du	pl
1	*na	*ni	*ne
2	*go	*gi	*ge
3	*ya

(The dual and plural forms are rather uncertain.)

References

• Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". In Andrew Pawley, Robert Attenborough, Robin Hide, Jack Golson, eds. Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 15–66. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782.

1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Awin–Pa". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.