| Adzera | ||||
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| Spoken in | Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea | |||
| Native speakers | 30,000 (date missing) | |||
| Language family | ||||
| Writing system | Latin | |||
| Language codes | ||||
| ISO 639-3 | variously: adz – Adzera zsu – Sukurum zsa – Sarasira |
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Adzera (also spelled Atzera, Azera, Atsera, Acira) is an Austronesian language spoken by about 30,000 people in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea.
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| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| High | /i/ | /u/ |
| Low | /ɑ/ | |
The diphthongs /ɑi ɑu/ occur, while other sequences of vowels are split over two syllables.
| Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | Plain | p | t | k | ʔ | |||
| Voiced | b | d | ɡ | |||||
| Prenasalized | ᵐp | ⁿt | ᵑk | ⁿʔ | ||||
| Affricate | Plain | tʃ | ||||||
| Voiced | dʒ | |||||||
| Prenasalized | ⁿtʃ | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||
| Rhotic | r | |||||||
| Fricative | f | s | h | |||||
| Approximant | w | j | ||||||
/h/ occurs in only one word: the interjection hai "yes".
The prenasalized consonants tend to lose prenasalization initially and after consonants.
/tʃ ⁿtʃ/ are sometimes realized as [ts ⁿts], especially in codas.
| A a | B b | D d | Dz dz | F f | G g | H h | I i | K k | M m | Mp mp | N n | Nt nt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| /ɑ/ | /b/ | /d/ | /dʒ/ | /f/ | /ɡ/ | /h/ | /i/ | /k/ | /m/ | /ᵐp/ | /n/ | /ⁿt/ |
| Nts nts | Ŋ ŋ | Ŋk ŋk | Ŋʼ ŋʼ | P p | R r | S s | T t | Ts ts | U u | W w | Y y | ʼ |
| /ⁿtʃ/ | /ŋ/ | /ᵑk/ | /ⁿʔ/ | /p/ | /r/ | /s/ | /t/ | /tʃ/ | /u/ | /w/ | /j/ | /ʔ/ |
J, o and z are used in some loanwords and names.