Rasawa language

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

Rasawa
Region	Rasawa village in Oudate District, Waropen Regency, Papua, Indonesia
Native speakers	(200 cited 1987)[1]
Language family	Lakes Plain Wapoga Rasawa–Saponi ? Rasawa
Language codes
ISO 639-3	rac
Glottolog	rasa1243
ELP	Rasawa

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.