Sawi language (Papuan)

Sawi or Sawuy is a language of the Sawi people of the Trans–New Guinea phylum spoken in sago swamps in the southwestern parts of the Indonesian province of Papua. Of the neighboring languages, it is most closely related to the Awyu languages to the east.^[2]

Sawi
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Papua
Ethnicity	Sawi
Native speakers	(3,500 cited 1993)[1]
Language family	Trans–New Guinea Greater Awyu Awyu–Dumut (tentative) Sawi
Language codes
ISO 639-3	saw
Glottolog	sawi1257

Sawi is an inflecting language and uses both inflections of the stem and suffixes to indicate person, number, and tense.