Sissano language

Not to be confused with Arop-Sissano language.
Sissano
Region Aitape District, Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea
Native speakers
 300 (2000)[1]
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3 sso
Glottolog siss1243[2]

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]

Phonology

Vowels

Front Central Back
High i u
Mid e (ə) o
Low a

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

References

  1. 1 2 Sissano at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Sissano". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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