沙瓦伊語

沙瓦伊語(Sawai、亦稱:韦达语<Weda>)為南島語系南哈馬黑拉語系()之一種，主要通行於印度尼西亚北马鲁古省哈马黑拉岛南部韦达及戈內(Gane)帝摩地區。約有12,000名使用者。

音系
底下說明通行於"勒力勒夫窩也布蘭"(Lelilef Woyebulan)村及"庫別波波麗斯"(Kobe Peplis)村的"沙瓦伊-庫別方言"。

輔音
沙瓦伊語有14個輔音：

元音
沙瓦伊語有7個元音:

音節
沙瓦伊語音節結構如下：

 (C)(C)V(C)

範例：

註釋

參考文獻

 Burquest, Donald A.; & Laidig, Wyn D. (Eds.). (1992). Phonological studies in four languages of Maluku. The Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington publications in linguistics (No. 108). Dallas: The Summer Institute of Linguistics, The University of Texas at Arlington, and Pattimura University. ISBN 0-88312-803-9.
 Whistler, Ronald. (1992). Phonology of Sawai. In D. A. Burquest & W. D. Laidig (Eds.), Phonological studies in four languages of Maluku (pp. 7–32). Dallas: The Summer Institute of Linguistics, The University of Texas at Arlington, and Pattimura University.
 Whistler, Ronald; & Whistler, Jacqui. (1995). Sawai: Introduction and wordlist. In D. T. Tryon (Ed.), Comparative Austronesian dictionary: An introduction to Austronesian studies (part 1: fascicle 1, pp. 659–65). Trends in linguistics, Documentation (No. 10). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

外部連結
 Sawai  (Ethnologue)

東部馬來-玻里尼西亞語族
印尼語言
哈马黑拉岛