Maiwala language

Maiwala is an Oceanic language of Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea.

Maiwala
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionMilne Bay Province
Native speakers
2,400 (2000 census)[1]
Austronesian
Language codes
ISO 639-3mum
Glottologmaiw1249[2]

The Maiwala language has 13 consonants: b, d, ɡ, ɣ gh, h, k, ɺ l, m, n, p, s, t, v; two semi-vowels: w, j y; and five vowels: a, ɛ e, ɪ i, ɔ o, ʊ u.[3]

References

  1. Maiwala at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Maiwala". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Nagai 2003:126


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