Sop language
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| Sop Sob |
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| Spoken in: | Papua New Guinea | |
| Region: | Madang Province | |
| Total speakers: | 2,500 | |
| Language family: | Trans-New Guinea Madang Rai Coast Peka Family Sop |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | ||
| ISO 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 | |
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| 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
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