Sop language

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Sop Sob
Spoken in:	Papua New Guinea
Region:	Madang Province
Total speakers:	2,500
Language family:	Trans-New Guinea  Madang   Rai Coast    Peka Family     Sop
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:
ISO/FDIS 639-3:	urw
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-​based pronunciation key.

Sop (also Sob, Usino) is a Rai Coast language spoken in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea by approximately 2,500 people.

The Sop language has been labelled under several different names. Among the names are Usino, Usina, Sopu, and Igoi. The Ethnologue uses the name Usino for this language. Its Ethnologue code is URW. Usino is the name of one of the villages and the name used for the government station. The speakers of this language do not recognise the name Usino as a name for their language. They use Sop as the name for their language. Sop is a Non-Austronesian language, Trans New Guinea phylum, Madang-Adelbert Range sub-phylum, Madang Super-Stock, Rai Coast stock, Peka family according to Würm.

[edit] Consonants

	Labial	Apical	Palatal	Velar
Plosive	p b	t d		k g
Fricative		s
Nasal	m	n
Approximant	w	r	j
Flap		r

• Where symbols appear in pairs the one to the left represents a voiceless consonant
• t, and d represent dental/alveolar/post-alveolar consonants, while n is only alveolar