Muyuw language
Muyuw language (Egum, Murua, Murua Dukwayasi, Murua Kaulae, Muruwa, Muyu, Muyua, Muyuwa) is one of the Kilivila–Louisiades languages (of the Austronesian language family), spoken on the Woodlark Islands , in the Solomon Sea within Papua New Guinea.
| Muyuw | |
|---|---|
| Region | Eastern New Guinea |
Native speakers | 6,000 (1998)[1] |
Austronesian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | myw |
| Glottolog | muyu1244[2] |
Number of speakers: 6,000 (1998), of them 3,000 are monolinguals. Speakers also use Dobu, Kilivila or Misima-Paneati. Latin script is used.
Dialects included Yanaba, Lougaw (Gawa), Wamwan, Nawyem, Iwa. Iwa dialect is transitional between Muyuw and Kilivila. Lexical similarity 68% with Kilivila.
Phonology
Phonology of the Muyuw language[3]:
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | lab. | plain | lab. | ||||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | pʷ | t | k | kʷ | |
| voiced | b | bʷ | d | ɡ | ɡʷ | ||
| Nasal | m | mʷ | |||||
| Fricative | v | s | |||||
| Lateral | l | ||||||
| Approximant | w | j | |||||
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References
- Muyuw at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Muyuw". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Lithgow, Daphne & David (1974). Muyuw language. Dictionaries of Papua New Guinea, 1.; Ukarumpa, Papua New Guinea: Ukarumpa: Summer Institute of Linguistics.CS1 maint: location (link)
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