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<tr><td><b>Also Known As:</b> Kaiwa

<b>Description:</b>

Iwal (also called Kaiwa from Jabêm Kai Iwac 'Iwac highlanders') is an Austronesian language spoken by about 1,900 people from nine villages in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea (Cobb & Wroge 1990). Although it appears most closely related to the South Huon Gulf languages, it is the most conservative member of its subgroup.
Iwal distinguishes 5 vowels and 16 consonants. Unlike most of its neighboring languages, it distinguishes the lateral /l/ from the trill /r/, the latter derived from earlier s, as in aru from Proto-Oceanic (POc) qasu 'smoke', ruru- from POc susu 'breast', and ur from POc qusan 'rain'. Otherwise it appears to be the most phonologically conservative language in the South Huon Gulf chain (see Ross 1988:154-160). It has retained POc t as /t/ (not /l/ or /y/) and POc mw as /mw/ (not /my/ or /ny/), as in mwat 'snake' from POc *mwata.
Iwal deictics correlate with first, second, and third person, each of which has a long and a short form. The latter appear to be anaphoric in usage. Deictics also serve to bracket relative clauses: ete/ebe ... ok/nok/nik. By far the most common brackets are ebe ... ok, but if the information in the clause is associated with either<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=8116784 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr>
<tr><td><h2>Location of Iwal Language Speakers</h2>
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<h2>Overview</h2>

<tr><td><b>Main Country: </b></td><td>[http://www.freebase.com/view/en/papua_new_guinea Papua New Guinea]</td></tr>

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<b><i>Regions: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/oceania Oceania]
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<tr><td><b>ISO 639-3 Code: </b></td><td>kbm</td></tr>

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<tr><td><h2>Classification Taxonomy</h2>
[[All Languages]]

  [[Austronesian Group]]

    [[Malayo-Polynesian Group]]

      [[Central-Eastern Group]]

        [[Eastern Malayo-Polynesian Group]]

          [[Oceanic Group]]

            [[Western Oceanic Group]]

              [[North New Guinea Group]]

                [[Huon Gulf Group]]

                  [[South Huon Gulf Group]]

                    [[Kaiwa Group]]

                      <b>[[Iwal Language]]</b>

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