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Suau language 
Summary
Suau, also known as Iou, is an Oceanic language spoken in the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken by 6,800 people and a further 14,000 as a lingua franca.
| Suau | |
|---|---|
| Iou | |
| Region | Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea |
Native speakers | 7,810 (2000 census)[1] L2 speakers: 13,000 (2021)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | swp |
| Glottolog | suau1242 |
Phonology edit
| Labial | Alveolar | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ |
| voiced | b | d | g | ||
| Nasal | m | n | |||
| Fricative | (f) | s | h | ||
| Lateral | l | ||||
| Glide | w | j | |||
- Some village dialects also include a fricative sound [f].[2]
- /l/ can also be heard as a flap [ɾ] in free variation.
- /w/ may also rarely be pronounced as [v, β] among speakers.[3]
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | u | |
| Mid | e | o | |
| Low | a |
External links edit
- Ekalesia Bukana (1895), Anglican Morning Prayer in Suau, digitized by Richard Mammana
- Paradisec has a number of collections of Suau materials, including two collections of Arthur Cappell's (AC1, AC2).
References edit
- ^ a b Suau at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Cooper, Russell E. (1975). Coastal Suau: A preliminary study of internal relationships. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. p. 273.
- ^ Ezard, Bryan; Lithgow, David. Suau Organised Phonology Data. SIL.
