Dedua language

Dedua
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Huon Peninsula, Morobe Province
Ethnicity 8,900 (2000 census?)[1]
Native speakers
 6,500 (2000 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ded
Glottolog dedu1240[2]

Dedua is a Papuan language spoken in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. Dialects are Dzeigoc and Fanic.

Phonology

Vowels (orthographic)

Front Back
High i u
Mid e o
Low a

Consonants (orthographic)

Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Labiovelar Glottal
Voiceless plosive p t k kp h/c
Voiced plosive b d g gb
Nasal m n ng
Voiceless fricative f s
Voiced affricate dz
Trill r
Approximant y w

References

  1. 1 2 Dedua at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Dedua". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.


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