Ramoaaina language

Ramoaaina (Ramuaina) is an Oceanic language spoken on the Duke of York Islands off eastern New Ireland.

Ramoaaina
Duke of York
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionNew Ireland
Native speakers
10,300 (2000 census)[1]
Austronesian
Language codes
ISO 639-3rai
Glottologramo1244[2]

Phonology

Phoneme inventory of the Ramoaaina language[3]:

Consonant sounds
Labial Alveolar Velar
Plosive voiceless p t k
voiced b d g
Fricative (s)
Rhotic r
Lateral l
Nasal m n ŋ
Approximant w

/s/ is used, but mainly in loanwords.

Vowel sounds
Front Central Back
High i u
Mid e ɘo
Low a
gollark: And Bill Gates donated most of his wealth to charity...
gollark: They don't just have piles of cash, their wealth is in shares in things.
gollark: I mean, to some degree they do.
gollark: Well, android lizard, but same sort of general idea.
gollark: Zuckerberg is the lizard, get it right.

References

  1. Ramoaaina at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ramoaaina". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Davies, Robyn; Fritzell, Lisbeth (1992). Duke of York grammar essentials (Ramoaaine). Ukarumpa: Summer Institute of Linguistics.


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