Brown Robert. Waris Grammar Sketch

Unpublished, 1990. — vi + 131 p.Waris is a Papuan language of the Imonda Sub-district, Amanab District, Sandaun Province. About 3,000 people in about 24 villages speak one of the four major dialects of Waris, and an additional number, perhaps as many as 1,400, speak it in the adjacent Kecamatan Waris of Indonesian Irian Jaya. It is classified as a member of the Border Stock, Trans-New Guinea Phylum.
This paper is an outline of the grammar of the Waris language intended to summarize all the features of the language that have been found up to this point. It will serve as a basis for a complete grammar of the language to be produced in the future.