Waskia (Vaskia, Woskia) is aPapuan language ofPapua New Guinea.^[2] It is spoken on half ofKarkar Island, and a small part of the shore on the mainland, by 20,000 people; language use is vigorous. The Waskia share their island with speakers ofTakia, anOceanic language which has beenrestructured under the influence of Waskia, which is the inter-community language. Waskia has been documented extensively byMalcolm Ross and is being further researched by Andrew Pick.

Waskia is spoken in Tokain (4°42′56″S145°38′02″E / 4.715575°S 145.633995°E /-4.715575; 145.633995 (Tokain)), a village in Malas ward,Sumgilbar Rural LLG on the coast of mainlandNew Guinea, and onKarkar Island, with the island and mainland varieties being lexically divergent from each other.^[3][4]

/ɡ/ can be pronounced as a fricative [ɣ] when in intervocalic positions.^[5]

Below are some Waskia lexical forms compared withAmako andProto-Northern Adelbert.^[2]: 473

• Ross, Malcolm D.; John Natu Paol (1978).A Waskia grammar sketch and vocabulary. Canberra: Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University.ISBN 978-0-85883-174-2.OCLC 4524381.

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