Sop language

Sop
Sob
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Madang Province
Native speakers	2,300 (2003)[1]
Language family	Trans–New Guinea Madang Rai Coast Peka Sop
Language codes
ISO 639-3	urw
Glottolog	sopp1247[2]

Sop (also Sob, Usino) is a Rai Coast language spoken in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea by approximately 2,500 people.

The Sop language has been labelled under several different names. Among the names are Usino, Usina, Sopu, and Igoi. Usino is the name of one of the villages and the name used for the government station. The speakers of this language do not recognize the name Usino as a name for their language. They use Sop as the name for their language.

Consonants

	Labial	Apical	Palatal	Velar
Plosive	p b	t d		k ɡ
Fricative	f	s
Nasal	m	n
Approximant	w	ɹ	j
Flap		ɾ

• Where symbols appear in pairs the one to the left represents a voiceless consonant
• t, and d represent dental/alveolar/post-alveolar consonants, while n is only alveolar

Vowels

Front	Central	Back
i		ɯ u
e		ɯ
	ɑ

Personal pronouns

	Singular	Plural
1st	ye	sini (exclusive); sige (inclusive)
2nd	nag	nini; ninag
3rd	nu	nini

References

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