Mussau-Emira language

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Mussau-Emira
Spoken in:	Papua New Guinea
Region:	Islands of Mussau and Emira (New Ireland Province)
Total speakers:	4,200 to 5,000
Language family:	Austronesian  Malayo-Polynesian   Central-Eastern    Eastern     Oceanic      St. Matthias       Mussau-Emira
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	map
ISO/FDIS 639-3:	emi
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-​based pronunciation key.

The Mussau-Emira lanuage is spoken on the islands of Mussau and Emira in the St. Matthias Islands.

Contents 1 Phonology 1.1 Phonemes 1.1.1 Consonants 1.1.2 Vowels 1.2 Stress 2 Sample vocabulary 2.1 Numbers

[edit] Phonology

[edit] Phonemes

[edit] Consonants

Mussau-Emira uses the following consonts

	Bilabial	Alveolar	Velar
Nasal	m	n
Plosive	p b	t	k g
Liquid		l r

[edit] Vowels

Mussau-Emira uses the vowels /i e a o u/

[edit] Stress

In most words the primary stress falls on the penultimate vowel and secondary stresses fall on every second syllable preceding that.

[edit] Sample vocabulary

[edit] Numbers

1. kateba
2. qalua
3. kotolu
4. qaata
5. qalima
6. qaonomo
7. qaitu
8. qaoalu
9. qasio
10. kasagaula