Sepik Iwam language

Sepik Iwam, or Yawenian, is a language of Papua New Guinea. It is the lexical basis of the Hauna trade pidgin.
It is spoken in villages such as Iniok in Tunap/Hunstein Rural LLG of East Sepik Province.

Phonology

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Pronouns

Sepik Iwam pronouns:

Grammar

Sepik Iwam subject agreement suffixes are:
The structure of this subject agreement paradigm can be traced back to Proto-Sepik, although the morphemes themselves do not seem to be directly related to the reconstructed Proto-Sepik forms.
Like May River Iwam, Sepik Iwam has periodic tense, for instance the matutinal
-iyakwok.