Suau language
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.
| Suau | |
|---|---|
| Iou | |
| Region | Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea |
Native speakers | (6,800 cited 1981)[1] L2 speakers: 14,000[2] (no date)[3] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | swp |
| Glottolog | suau1242 |
Phonology
| Labial | Alveolar | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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].[4]
- /l/ can also be heard as a flap [ɾ] in free variation.
- /w/ may also rarely be pronounced as [v, β] among speakers.[5]
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | u | |
| Mid | e | o | |
| ɔ | |||
| 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
- Suau at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- 14,000 as a lingua franca; perhaps this is the total number
- Suau language at Ethnologue (10th ed., 1984). Note: Data may come from the 9th edition (1978).
- 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.
| Official languages | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Major Indigenous languages |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other Papuan languages |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sign languages | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nuclear Papuan Tip |
| ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Papuan Tip |
| ||||||||||||||
| Other Papuan Tip |
| ||||||||||||||
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.