Kewa wani nau'in yaren Engan ne na lardin Southern Highlands na Papua New Guinea. Franklin & Franklin (1978) sun tattara ƙamus na yaren yammacin Kewa.

Yaren Kewa
Lamban rijistar harshe
ISO 639-3
Glottolog kewa1250[1]
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Rijistar Kewa pandanus

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Kewa cikakken rikodin kauce wa pandanus, wanda ake amfani dashi kawai a cikin gandun daji a lokacin girbi karuka, an rubuta shi sosai. An tsara harshe kuma an ƙuntata ƙamus, tare da kusan kalmomi dubu waɗanda suka bambanta da harshe na al'ada. Karl. Franklin ne ya fara bayyana wannan a shekarar 1972.

Kalmomin Pandanus-register suna da fa'ida mai zurfi. Ni, yoyo, reduplication na yo 'shafi', yana nufin gashi, kunne, nono, da scrotum, duk abubuwan da ke rataye daga jiki yayin da ganyen pandanus ke rataye a itace. Palaa, 'ƙafa', (ko cinya ko reshe) ana amfani dashi don duk wani bayani game da bishiyoyi, gami da tushen, itace, da wuta. (Ko da a cikin Kewa na yau da kullun, repena yana nufin 'itace' da 'wuta'.) Maeye ko 'hauka' yana nufin duk wani dabba da ba ɗan adam ba sai dai karnuka. Ya bambanta da duniyar tunani ta mutane.

An kirkiro kalmomi da yawa daga yanayin Kewa amma suna da ma'anoni na idiosyncratic a cikin gandun daji. 'aa', daga aa 'mutum', yago 'aboki', da pa 'yi, yin', yana nufin mutum, gwiwa, fata, da wuyansa. Ana gina kalmomi da yawa a kan wannan kalma. Misali, ni madi aayagopa-si (Ina ɗauke da mutum-DIM) yana nufin "mahaifinna".

Harshen kuma an sauƙaƙa harshe. An rasa yanayin haɗin sashi kuma an maye gurbinsa da sauƙi mai sauƙi na sassan. A cikin daidaitattun Kewa, akwai saiti biyu na ƙarshen magana, ɗayan yana nuna ayyukan da aka yi don amfanin mai magana. Wannan saiti ya ɓace daga yaren pandanus. Sauran juyin ya bambanta da ɗan kaɗan. Misali, siffofin 'zama' sune:

Kewa na al'ada Rubuce-rubucen Pandanus
Mai banbanci Biyu Yawancin mutane Mai banbanci Biyu Yawancin mutane
Mutum na farko ko pi Sa pipa niaa pima ko kuma mupi saa mupapana niaa mupapana
Mutum na biyu ba pi ba Neighst
Mutum na uku nipu pia Har ila yau, yana da kyau aayagopa mupia aayagopanu pupipa

(The -nu a cikin aayagopanu ne na rukuni).

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Yaren Kewa". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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