Nukuria language

Nuguria
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Nuguria
Native speakers
 550 (2003)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 nur
Glottolog nuku1259[2]

Nuguria (Nukuria) is a Polynesian language, spoken by about 550 people on Nuguria in the eastern islands of Papua New Guinea.[3]

Classification

Nukuria is a part of the Austronesian language family, an SVO structured language family.[4]

Geographic Distribution

Nukuria is a dialect of the language Nahoa, and is spoken in the Nuguria Atoll.[5] It is alternatively known as the Fead Islands located in the Bougainville Province.[6]

Phonology

The Nuguria language's alphabet contains five vowels: a, e, i, o, u, and fifteen consonants.[7]

Consonants
Bilabial Labiodental Alveolar Velar Glottal
Stop voiceless p t k
voiced b g
Fricative voiceless f s h
voiced v
Nasal m n ŋ
Approximant l w
Trill r

References

  1. ↑ Nuguria at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Nukuria". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Marck, Jeff (2000), Topics in Polynesian languages and culture history. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics
  4. ↑ Blust, Robert. 2009. The Austronesian Languages. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
  5. ↑ Regan, Anthony J., and Helga M. Griffin. Bougainville before the Conflict. ANU Press, 2015.
  6. ↑ Jerry Allen and Conrad Hurd. “Languages.” Languages of the Bougainville District, Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1963, p. 56.
  7. ↑ Ray, Sidney H. (1916). "Polynesian Linguistics. III. Polynesian Languages of the Solomon Islands". The Journal of the Polynesian Society. 25 (1): 18–23. JSTOR 20701126.


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