Sissano language
Sissano is an Austronesian language spoken by at most a few hundred people around Sissano in Aitape District, Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea. 4,800 speakers were reported in 1990, but the 1998 tsunami wiped out most of the population.[1]
| Sissano | |
|---|---|
| Region | Aitape District, Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea |
Native speakers | 300 (2000)[1] |
| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | sso |
| Glottolog | siss1243[2] |
Phonology
Consonants
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | |
| voiced | (b) | (d) | (g) | |||
| Fricative | voiceless | s | ||||
| voiced | β | (ɣ) | ||||
| Approximant | central | j | ||||
| lateral | l | ʎ | ||||
| Rhotic | r | |||||
gollark: And you need entertainment as well, so probably a few hundred terabytes of HDDs so you can store every movie you're ever likely to watch, with redundancy, and you might as well just store every scientific paper and book ever written to help rebuild society.
gollark: I guess you could install that too.
gollark: Also "defensive" lasers for "peaceful purposes only".
gollark: You should also stick entirely independent food production into your bunker, as well as its own nuclear reactor and a thing to condense water from the air.
gollark: Also, you need to be have an independent air supply in case someone breathes at it or something, yes.
References
- Sissano at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Sissano". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Laycock, Don (1973). "Sissano Warapu and Melanesian Pidginization". Oceanic Linguistics. University of Hawai'i Press. 12 (1/2): 245–277. doi:10.2307/3622856. JSTOR 3622856.
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