Dedua language
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Dedua | |
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Native to | Papua New Guinea |
Region | Huon Peninsula, Morobe Province |
Ethnicity | 8,900 (2000 census?)[1] |
Native speakers | 6,500 (2000 census)[1] |
Trans–New Guinea
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | ded |
Glottolog | dedu1240 |
Dedua is a Papuan language spoken in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. Dialects are Dzeigoc and Fanic.
Phonology
[edit]The plain linked text shows IPA, while the text in angle brackets shows the orthography. If no angle brackets are shown, the orthography is the same as the IPA.
Vowels
[edit]Front | Back | |
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Close | i | u |
Mid | e | o |
Open | a |
Consonants
[edit]Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labial–velar | Glottal | ||
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Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | k͡p ⟨kp⟩ | ʔ ⟨h/c⟩ | |
voiced | b | d | g | ɡ͡b ⟨gb⟩ | |||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ ⟨ng⟩ | ||||
Fricative | f | s | |||||
Affricate | dz | ||||||
Trill | r | ||||||
Approximant | j ⟨y⟩ | w |
References
[edit]- ^ a b Dedua at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)