The East Pauwasi languages are a family of Papuan languages spoken in north-central New Guinea, on both sides of the Indonesia-Papua New Guinea border. They may either form part of a larger Pauwasi language family along with the Western Pauwasi languages, or they could form an independent language family.
According to Timothy Usher, the East Pauwasi languages, which seem to form a dialect chain, are:
Usher also identified the Karkar (Yuri) language as Pauwasi.
Some lexical reconstructions of Proto-East Pauwasi by Usher (2020) are:
The following basic vocabulary words are from Voorhoeve (1971, 1975), as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database.
The words cited constitute translation equivalents, whether they are cognate (e.g. mÃÂndai, mÃÂndini, mindimna for âÂÂheadâÂÂ) or not (e.g. kolk, ÃÂndai, gwane for âÂÂboneâÂÂ).