Zia language

Zia
Pronunciation	[d̪ia]
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	lower Waria Valley, Morobe Province
Ethnicity	Zia
Native speakers	4,500 (2000)[1]
Language family	Trans–New Guinea Binanderean Zia–Yekora Zia
Dialects	Zia Mawae
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	zia
Glottolog	ziaa1250[2]

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

References

• Organised Phonology Data, Zia Language. Summer Institute of Linguistics. Retrieved March 17, 2008.

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