Suau language
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Austronesian language spoken in Papua New Guinea
| Suau | |
|---|---|
| Iou | |
| Region | L2 speakers: 13,000 (2021)[1] |
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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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Plosive
|
voiceless | p | t
|
k | ʔ |
| voiced | b | d
|
g | ||
| Nasal | m | n
|
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Fricative
|
(f) | s | h | ||
| Lateral | l
|
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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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
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
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- * indicates proposed status
- ? indicates classification dispute
- † indicates extinct status
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