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]
Sissano | |
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Region | West Aitape Rural LLG, Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea |
Native speakers | 300 (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 | |
Phonology
editVowels
editFront | Central | Back | |
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High | i | u | |
Mid | e | (ə) | o |
Low | a |
Consonants
editBilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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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
edit- ^ 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.