Sissano language
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| Sissano | |
|---|---|
| Region | West Aitape Rural LLG, Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea |
Native speakers | (300 cited 2000)[1] |
| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | sso |
| Glottolog | siss1243 |
| ELP | Sissano |
 Sissano is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
Sissano is an Austronesian language spoken by at most a few hundred people around Sissano in West Aitape Rural LLG, Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea.[2] 4,800 speakers were reported in 1990, but the 1998 tsunami wiped out most of the population.[1]
Phonology
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | u | |
| Mid | e | (ə) | o |
| Low | a |
Consonants
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | |
| voiced | (b) | (d) | (g) | |||
| Fricative | voiceless | s | ||||
| voiced | β | (ɣ) | ||||
| Approximant | central | j | ||||
| lateral | l | ʎ | ||||
| Rhotic | r | |||||
References
- ^ a b Sissano at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Papua New Guinea languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
- Laycock, Don (1973). "Sissano Warapu and Melanesian Pidginization". Oceanic Linguistics. 12 (1/2). University of Hawai'i Press: 245–277. doi:10.2307/3622856. JSTOR 3622856.