Maiwala language

Maiwala
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Milne Bay Province
Native speakers
2,400 (2000 census)[1]
Austronesian
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


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