Maiwala language

Maiwala
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Milne Bay Province
Native speakers	2,400 (2000 census)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Oceanic Papuan Tip Nuclear Papuan Tip North Mainland – D'Entrecasteaux Taupota Maiwala
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mum
Glottolog	maiw1249[2]

Maiwala is an Oceanic language of Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea.

The Maiwala language has 13 consonants: b, d, ɡ, ɣ ⟨gh⟩, h, k, ɺ ⟨l⟩, m, n, p, s, t, v; two semi-vowels: w, j ⟨y⟩; and five vowels: a, ɛ ⟨e⟩, j ⟨i⟩, ɔ ⟨o⟩, ʊ ⟨u⟩.^[3]

References

1. Maiwala at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Maiwala". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. Nagai 2003:126