Zia language

Zia
Pronunciation [d̪ia]
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region lower Waria Valley, Morobe Province
Ethnicity Zia
Native speakers
 4,500 (2000)[1]
Dialects
  • Zia
  • Mawae
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3 zia
Glottolog ziaa1250[2]

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).

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/

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).
  • "Organised Phonology Data" (PDF).
  • "A Selective Word List in Ten Different Binadere Languages" (PDF).
  • Zia Swadesh List
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.