Maiwala language

Maiwala
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Milne Bay Province
Native speakers
 2,400 (2000 census)[1]
Austronesian
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mum
Glottolog maiw1249[2]

Maiwala is an Oceanic language of Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea.

The Maiwala language has 13 consonants: b, d, ɡ, ɣ ⟨gh⟩, h, k, ɺ ⟨l⟩, m, n, p, s, t, v; two semi-vowels: w, j ⟨y⟩; and five vowels: a, ɛ ⟨e⟩, ɪ ⟨i⟩, ɔ ⟨o⟩, ʊ ⟨u⟩.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Maiwala at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Maiwala". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Nagai 2003:126


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