Sissano language

Sissano
Region	Aitape District, Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea
Native speakers	300 (2000)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Schouten Siau Sissano
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	sso
Glottolog	siss1243[2]

Sissano is an Austronesian language spoken by at most a few hundred people around Sissano in Aitape District, Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea. 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
	voiced	(b)	(d)		(g)
Fricative	voiceless		s
	voiced	β			(ɣ)
Approximant	central			j
	lateral		l	ʎ
Rhotic			r

References

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

• 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.