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Austronesian language spoken in Papua New Guinea
Sudest Region Tagula Island , Milne Bay Province , Papua New Guinea Native speakers
(2,000 cited 1987)[1] Language family
ISO 639-3 tgo Glottolog sude1239
Sudest ('Southeast'), also known as Tagula , is an Oceanic language of Papua New Guinea.
Phonology [ ] Consonants [ ]
Labial
Dental /Alveolar
Palatal
Velar
plain
lab.
plain
lab.
Plosive
voiceless
p
pʷ
t
k
kʷ
voiced
b
bʷ
d
ɟ
ɡ
ɡʷ
prenasal
ᵐb
ᵐbʷ
ⁿd
ᶮɟ
ᵑɡ
ᵑɡʷ
Fricative
voiced
β
βʷ
ð
ɣ
ɣʷ
voiceless
s
Nasal
m
mʷ
n
ɲ
ŋ
ŋʷ
Rhotic
r
Lateral
l
Approximant
j
w
/ɣ/ is heard as a glottal [h], before /o/ or /u/.
/ɣʷ/ is heard as [hʷ], in free variation within different dialects.
/β, βʷ/ are originally bilabial, although many speakers under the influence of English pronounce them as labio-dental [v, vʷ].[2] Vowels [ ]
Front
Central
Back
Close
i
u
Mid
e
ə
o
Open
a
External links [ ] Paradisec has two collections of Arthur Cappell 's materials (AC1 , AC2 ) and one collection of Malcolm Ross 's (MR1 ) materials that include Sobei-language materials. References [ ]
^ Sudest at Ethnologue ^ Anderson, Mike; Ross, Malcolm (2002). Sudest . The Oceanic Languages: Richmond: Curzon. pp. 322–346.
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