Maiwala language
Maiwala | |
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Native to | Papua New Guinea |
Region | Milne Bay Province |
Native speakers | 2,400 (2000 census)[1] |
Austronesian
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
mum |
Glottolog |
maiw1249 [2] |
Maiwala is an Oceanic language of Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea.
The Maiwala language has 13 consonants: b, d, ɡ, ɣ ⟨gh⟩, h, k, ɺ ⟨l⟩, m, n, p, s, t, v; two semi-vowels: w, j ⟨y⟩; and five vowels: a, ɛ ⟨e⟩, j ⟨i⟩, ɔ ⟨o⟩, ʊ ⟨u⟩.[3]
References
- ↑ Maiwala at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Maiwala". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Nagai 2003:126
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