Sissano language

Sissano
Sissano
Region	West Aitape Rural LLG, Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea
Native speakers	300 (2000)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Schouten Siau Sissano; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	sso
Glottolog	siss1243
ELP	Sissano
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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
Plosive	voiced	(b)	(d)		(g)
Fricative	voiceless		s
Fricative	voiced	β			(ɣ)
Approximant	central			j
Approximant	lateral		l	ʎ
Rhotic			r

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Sissano at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
^ 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. University of Hawai'i Press. 12 (1/2): 245–277. doi:10.2307/3622856. JSTOR 3622856.

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[e18-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b Sissano at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Ethnologue22-PNG-2] 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.

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