Gwahatike (also called Dahating or Gwatike) is a language generally classified in the Warup branch of the Finisterre family of

Finisterre–Huon languages The Finisterre–Huon languages comprise the largest family within the Trans–New Guinea languages (TNG) in the classification of Malcolm Ross. They were part of the original TNG proposal, and William A. Foley considers their TNG identity to b ...

. As of 2003, it was spoken by 1570 people in

Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n ...

. It is spoken in several villages located south of

Saidor Saidor is a village located in Saidor ward of Rai Coast Rural LLG, Madang Province, on the north coast of Papua New Guinea. It is also the administrative centre of the Rai Coast District of Madang Province in Papua New Guinea. The village was the ...

Phonology

* A glottal plosive �appears word-finally if the word ends with a short vowel. * /s/ and /n/ are palatalized ʲ nʲbefore /i(ː)/. * /r/ is unvoiced ̥preceding /h/ or word-finally.

References

Languages of Papua New Guinea Finisterre languages {{PapuaNewGuinea-stub