Sawi or Sawuy is a language of the Sawi people of the Trans–New Guinea phylum spoken in sago swamps of West Irian. Of the neighboring languages it is most closely related to the Awyu languages to the east.Sawi is an inflecting language and uses both inflections of the stem and suffixes to indicate person number and tense.
ISO 639-3 code
saw
family
Trans–New Guinea languages, Greater Awyu languages
This page contains content from the copyrighted Wikipedia article "Sawi language"; that content is used under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.