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 | |
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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 | ||
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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: I got 1/3 on my small bunch of experiments™.
gollark: I do only have one free slot now, though.
gollark: I'd prefer to not catch too many.
gollark: AR(r)ing!
gollark: I kind of wanted it, actually, for the guardian farms.
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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