Awtuw language

Awtuw, also known as Kamnum, is spoken in Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea. It is a polysynthetic language closely related to Karawa and Pouye. It is spoken in Galkutua, Gutaiya, Kamnom, Tubum, and Wiup villages in Kamnom East ward, East Wapei Rural LLG, Sandaun Province.
It is an endangered language, being widely replaced by Tok Pisin.

Phonology

Awtuw consonants are:

	Bilabial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar
Nasal
Plosive
Rhotic
Lateral
Semivowel

Awtuw vowels are:

	Front	Central	Back
Close
Close-mid
Near-open
Open

Pronouns

Pronouns are:

Verbal morphology

Awtuw has a very rich verbal morphology, with 8 prefixal slots encoding tense, aspect, modality, polarity, subject number and reciprocal.). Six of these slots contain prefixes that have cognates in Pouye.
The suffixal chain contains recently grammaticalized suffixes encoding associated motion, aspect, benefactive, and various unusual categories such as celerative -imya 'quickly' as in , simulative -panya 'pretend', and periodic tense.