Rasawa language

Rasawa
Rasawa
Region	Rasawa village in Oudate District, Waropen Regency, Papua, Indonesia
Native speakers	(200 cited 1987)
Language family	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

^ Rasawa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ 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.