Waropen language

Waropen
Waropen
Native to	Indonesia
Region	West Papua and Papua
Native speakers	(6,000 cited 1987)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian Eastern Malayo-Polynesian South Halmahera–West New Guinea Waropen; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	wrp
Glottolog	waro1242

Waropen is an Austronesian language spoken at the Cendrawasih Bay of Indonesian Papua. It is a primary branch of the South Halmahera–West New Guinea languages.

Dialects are Waropen Kai, Napan, and Ambumi.

Phonology

Consonants
		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n		ŋ
Plosive	voiceless	p	t		k	ʔ
	prenasal	ᵐb	ⁿd		ᵑɡ
	voiced	b	d		ɡ
Fricative		f	s		ɣ	(h)
Rhotic			r
Approximant		w		j

/w/ can also be heard as a fricative [β].

/h/ may also exist phonemically in other dialects.^[2]

Sounds /w, j/ can be heard as vowels [ʊ, ɪ] when after vowel sounds.^[3]

/ɛ/ may be pronounced as [ɛ] or [e].^[2]

In Papua province, it is spoken in Mamberamo Raya Regency and Waropen Regency. The Ambumi dialect also called Waruri is spoken in Ambumi village in Wondama Bay Regency, West Papua.^[4] Waropen is also spoken southwest to the Rombak River mouth.

^ Waropen at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ ^a ^b Held, Gerrit J. (1942). Grammatica van het Waropensch (Nederlandsch Noord Nieuw-Guinea). A.C. Nix, Bandoeng.
^ Flassy, Don A.L.; Animung, Lisidus; Sawaki, Rachel (1994). Fonologi bahasa Waropen. Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan.
^ Suryawan, I Ngurah (2018-10-27). "Kampung Papua, Antara Eksploitasi dan Konservasi (1)". tatkala.co. Retrieved 2024-06-07.

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