Zia language

Zia is a Papuan language spoken in the Lower Waria Valley in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. It is part of the Binandere subgroup of the Trans–New Guinea phylum of languages (Ross, 2005).

For the people, see Zia people (Papua New Guinea).
Zia
Pronunciation[d̪ia]
Native toPapua New Guinea
Regionlower Waria Valley, Morobe Province
EthnicityZia
Native speakers
4,500 (2000)[1]
Trans–New Guinea
  • Binanderean
    • Zia–Yekora
      • Zia
Dialects
  • Zia
  • Mawae
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3zia
Glottologziaa1250[2]

Orthography
[3]
Uppercase letters ABDEGIKMNOPRSTUWYZ
Lowercase letters abdegikmnoprstuwyz
IPA /ɑ//b//d//ɛ//ɡ//i//k//m//n//ɔ//p//ɾ//s//t̪//u//w//j//dz/
gollark: I think either the piston will fly out or it'll be too weak to function usefully with the power they can provide it but who knows.
gollark: Apparently whoever is doing the projectile thing is making a simple vaguely coilgun-type thing. I have no idea if it will actually work as they explained it.
gollark: Does it doing combustion count as *on* fire?
gollark: There would be significant legal issues and also quite likely damage to the box.
gollark: Maybe you would be better off using quantum field theory. Except that doesn't have gravity/general relativity, only special relativity, so you should work out how to unify those?

References
  1. Zia at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Zia". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. "Organised Phonology Data" (PDF). Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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