View source for Mawes language

{{Short description|Language in Papua}}
{{Infobox language
| name             = Mawes
| region           = [[Papua (province)|Papua]]: [[Sarmi Regency]], [[:id:Bonggo, Sarmi|Bonggo District]] - Mawes Dai, Mawes Mukti, and Mawes Wres villages to the west of the [[Buri River]]
| ref              = e18
| familycolor      = Papuan
| fam1             = [[Northwest Papuan languages|Northwest Papuan]]?
| fam2             = [[Foja Range languages|Foja Range]]
| iso3             = mgk
| glotto           = mawe1251
| glottorefname    = Mawes
| extinct          = 2024
}}

'''Mawes''' is an extinct [[Papuan language]] of [[Indonesia]].

Usher (2020) proposes that it may be related to the [[Kwerbic languages]].<ref>[https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/families/northwest-new-guinea/foja-range/west-foja-range/masep New Guinea World]</ref> Foley (2018) classifies Mawes as a [[language isolate]],<ref name="Foley-NWNG"/> and so does Hammarström (2010).<ref>Harald Hammarström. 2010. The Genetic Position of the Mawes Language. Paper presented at the Workshop on the Languages of Papua 2, 8–12 February 2010, Manokwari, Indonesia.</ref> It had 850 native speakers in 2006, but was extinct by 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |date=8 March 2024 |title=11 Indigenous Languages Declared Extinct: Education Ministry |url=https://jakartaglobe.id/news/11-indigenous-languages-declared-extinct-education-ministry#:~:text=Muksin%20specifically%20mentioned%2011%20extinct,in%20different%20areas%20of%20Maluku. |url-status=live |access-date=10 September 2024 |website=Jakarta Globe}}</ref>

==Pronouns==
Pronouns are:<ref name="Foley-NWNG"/>

:{| {{table}}
!  !! sg !! pl
|-
! 1
| kidam || inim
|-
! 2
| nam || nɛm
|-
! 3
| ɛbɛ || mia
|}

==Basic vocabulary==
Basic vocabulary of Mawes listed in [[William A. Foley|Foley]] (2018):<ref name="Foley-NWNG">{{cite book |last=Foley |first=William A. |editor1-last=Palmer |editor1-first=Bill |date=2018 |title=The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide |chapter=The languages of Northwest New Guinea |series= The World of Linguistics |volume=4 |location=Berlin |publisher=De Gruyter Mouton |pages=433–568 |isbn=978-3-11-028642-7}}</ref>

:{| {{table}}
|+ Mawes basic vocabulary
! gloss !! Mawes
|-
| ‘bird’ || ikinin
|-
| ‘blood’ || wɛrɛi
|-
| ‘bone’ || tuan
|-
| ‘ear’ || bɛr
|-
| ‘eat’ || nan
|-
| ‘egg’ || siwin
|-
| ‘eye’ || nonsum
|-
| ‘fire’ || kani
|-
| ‘leg, foot’ || yaʔ
|-
| ‘louse’ || sene
|-
| ‘name’ || dimanɛ
|-
| ‘one’ || mɛndakai
|-
| ‘see’ || nomo
|-
| ‘sky’ || kowan
|-
| ‘stone’ || fɛt
|-
| ‘sun’ || ɛsar
|-
| ‘tooth’ || wan
|-
| ‘tree’ || dengkin
|-
| ‘two’ || yakɛneu
|-
| ‘water’ || bo
|-
| ‘woman’ || yei
|}

The following basic vocabulary words are from Voorhoeve (1975),<ref>Voorhoeve, C.L. ''Languages of Irian Jaya: Checklist. Preliminary classification, language maps, wordlists''. B-31, iv + 133 pages. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1975. {{doi|10.15144/PL-B31}}</ref> as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database:<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://transnewguinea.org/language/mawes |title=TransNewGuinea.org - database of the languages of New Guinea |last=Greenhill |first=Simon |date=2016 |access-date=2020-11-05}}</ref>

:{| class="wikitable sortable"
! gloss !! Mawes
|-
| head || defar
|-
| hair || tere
|-
| eye || nonsom
|-
| tooth || wan
|-
| leg || ija
|-
| dog || wede
|-
| pig || was
|-
| bird || ikinin
|-
| egg || siwin
|-
| blood || werei
|-
| bone || tuan
|-
| skin || dukunen
|-
| tree || deŋkin
|-
| man || ke
|-
| sun || esar
|-
| water || bo
|-
| fire || kani
|-
| stone || feyt
|-
| name || dimane
|-
| eat || nano
|-
| one || mendakai
|-
| two || yakenew
|}

==Sentences==
Of the few sentences that have been documented for Mawes, some example sentences are:<ref name="Foley-NWNG"/>{{rp|497–8}}

{{interlinear|number=(1)
|ɛbɛ marsya nomtak
|3SG yesterday come
|‘He came yesterday.’}}

{{interlinear|number=(2)
|wɛdɛ ɛbɛ ketes
|dog 3SG bite
|‘The dog bit him.’}}

{{interlinear|number=(3)
|ke-me totoso kida-wɛn mamɛnta fɛn tamu(k)
|man-? money 1SG-POSS father DAT/ALL give
|‘That man gave money to my father.’}}

{{interlinear|number=(4)
|ɛbɛ-mɛ dengkin nambuak kom sorna
|3sg-? tree machete INSTR cut
|‘He is cutting wood with a machete.’}}

{{interlinear|number=(5)
|ke-me sau fɛn banak
|man-? village DAT/ALL go
|‘That man went to the village.’}}

{{interlinear|number=(6)
|ke-me sau-er nom
|man-? village-ABL come
|‘That man came from the village.’}}

{{interlinear|number=(7)
|ke-me yei dete banak
|man-? woman COM go
|‘That man went with his wife.’}}

==Further reading==
*Wambaliau, Theresia. 2006. ''Survey Report on the Mawes Language in Papua, Indonesia''. (in Indonesian). Unpublished manuscript. Jayapura: SIL Indonesia.
*Hammarström, Harald. 2010.'' The genetic position of the Mawes language''. Paper presented at the Workshop on the Languages of Papua 2. Manokwari, Indonesia, 8–12 February 2010.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_mgk_swadesh-1/mgk.txt Rosetta Project: Mawes Swadesh list]

{{Papuan languages}}
{{Languages of Indonesia}}
{{Tor–Kwerba languages}}

[[Category:Foja Range languages]]
[[Category:Languages of western New Guinea]]
[[Category:Language isolates of New Guinea]]
[[Category:Extinct languages of Oceania]]