Zia language

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Zia
Pronunciation[d̪ia]
Native toPapua New Guinea
Regionlower , Morobe Province
EthnicityZia
Native speakers
4,500 (2000)[1]
Trans–New Guinea
  • Binanderean
    • Zia–Yekora
      • Zia
Dialects
  • Zia
  • Mawae
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3zia
Glottologziaa1250

Zia is a Papuan language spoken in the Lower in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. It is part of the Binandere subgroup of the Trans–New Guinea phylum of languages (Ross, 2005).

Orthography[]

[2]
Uppercase letters A B D E G I K M N O P R S T U W Y Z
Lowercase letters a b d e g i k m n o p r s t u w y z
IPA /ɑ/ /b/ /d/ /ɛ/ /ɡ/ /i/ /k/ /m/ /n/ /ɔ/ /p/ /ɾ/ /s/ // /u/ /w/ /j/ /dz/

References[]

  1. ^ Zia at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ^ "Organised Phonology Data" (PDF). Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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