Yawa is a Papuan language spoken in the Papua province of Indonesia. It is characterized by polysynthetic morphology and complex verb agreement. The language is mostly oral with ongoing efforts to develop written materials.
| 🌐 ISO Code: | yva / yva |
| 🧬 Language Family: | Papuan |
| ✍️ Writing System: | Latin |
| 🔤 Alphabet Size: | 23 |
| 📍 Spoken In: | |
| 🗣️ Native Speakers: | 0.004 million |
| 🌎 Total Speakers: | 0.004 million |
| 📚 Wikipedia Articles: | 2 |
| 🏛️ UN Official Language: | — |
| 📖 Literature Age: | |
| 👨🎓 Language Learners: | 0 million |
| 🗺️ Dominant Region: | Indonesia |
| 🔠 Has Transliteration: | — |
| 🧩 Grammatical Cases: | 3 |
| 🎵 Tonal Language: | — |
| 👩🎤 Grammatical Gender: | none |
| 🔡 Average Word Length: | 3.1 syllables |
| 🔤 Verb Conjugation Complexity: | complex |
| 🧩 Scrabble Score (avg): | 5 |
| ⏳ FSI Learning Hours: | 1100 |
| 📏 Longest Word: | mangkatabawa |
| 🤖 Our AI Knowledge: |
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Very limited linguistic documentation available.
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