Dedua language
Dedua is a Papuan language spoken in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. Dialects are Dzeigoc and Fanic.
Dedua | |
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Native to | Papua New Guinea |
Region | Huon Peninsula, Morobe Province |
Ethnicity | 8,900 (2000 census?)[1] |
Native speakers | 6,500 (2000 census)[1] |
Trans–New Guinea
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | ded |
Glottolog | dedu1240 [2] |
Phonology
Vowels (orthographic)
Front | Back | |
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High | i | u |
Mid | e | o |
Low | a |
Consonants (orthographic)
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labiovelar | Glottal | |
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Voiceless plosive | p | t | k | kp | h/c | |
Voiced plosive | b | d | g | gb | ||
Nasal | m | n | ng | |||
Voiceless fricative | f | s | ||||
Voiced affricate | dz | |||||
Trill | r | |||||
Approximant | y | w |
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References
- Dedua at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Dedua". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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