Suau language
Austronesian language spoken in Papua New Guinea
Suau | |
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Iou | |
Region | Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea |
Native speakers | 7,810 (2000 census)[1] L2 speakers: 13,000 (2021)[1] |
Language family | Austronesian
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | swp |
Glottolog | suau1242 |
Suau, also known as Iou, is an Oceanic language spoken in the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken by 6,800 people and a further 14,000 as a lingua franca.
Phonology
Labial | Alveolar | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ |
voiced | b | d | g | ||
Nasal | m | n | |||
Fricative | (f) | s | h | ||
Lateral | l | ||||
Glide | w | j |
- Some village dialects also include a fricative sound [f].[2]
- /l/ can also be heard as a flap [ɾ] in free variation.
- /w/ may also rarely be pronounced as [v, β] among speakers.[3]
Front | Central | Back | |
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High | i | u | |
Mid | e | o | |
Low | a |
External links
- Ekalesia Bukana (1895), Anglican Morning Prayer in Suau, digitized by Richard Mammana
- Paradisec has a number of collections of Suau materials, including two collections of Arthur Cappell's (AC1, AC2).
References
- ^ a b Suau at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Cooper, Russell E. (1975). Coastal Suau: A preliminary study of internal relationships. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. p. 273.
- ^ Ezard, Bryan; Lithgow, David. Suau Organised Phonology Data. SIL.
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