Naasioi language
Naasioi (also Nasioi, Kieta, Kieta Talk, Aunge) is an East Papuan language spoken in the central mountains and southeast coast of Kieta District, Bougainville Province, Papua New Guinea.
| Naasioi | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Kieta District, Bougainville Province |
Native speakers | 20,000 (2007)[1] |
South Bougainville
| |
| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | nas |
| Glottolog | naas1242[2] |
Phonology
Consonants
| Bilabial | Coronal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ |
| voiced | b | d | |||
| Nasal | m | n | (ŋ) | ||
Nasals can be syllabic.
gollark: Another potential project under UNWAVERING PASTURELAND is to make a gollariosity detection neural network.
gollark: Markov chains are actually bad and not good.
gollark: We were investigating neural network technology, indeed.
gollark: On that.
gollark: Yes, there is ongoing research.
References
- Naasioi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Naasioi". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Hurd, Conrad; Hurd, Phyllis W. (1966). Nasioi language course. Port Moresby: Department of Information and Extension Services.
- Hurd, Conrad; Hurd, Phyllis W. (1970). "Nasioi verbs". Oceanic Linguistics. Oceanic Linguistics, Vol. 9, No. 1. 9 (1): 37–78. doi:10.2307/3622931. JSTOR 3622931.
- Hurd, Conrad (1977). "Nasioi projectives". Oceanic Linguistics. Oceanic Linguistics, Vol. 16, No. 2. 16 (2): 111–178. doi:10.2307/3622956. JSTOR 3622956.
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