Zia language
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).
| Zia | |
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| Pronunciation | [d̪ia] |
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | lower Waria Valley, Morobe Province |
| Ethnicity | Zia |
Native speakers | 4,500 (2000)[1] |
Trans–New Guinea
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| Dialects |
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| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | zia |
| Glottolog | ziaa1250 |
Orthography
| Uppercase letters | A | B | D | E | G | I | K | M | N | O | P | R | S | T | U | W | Y | Z |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lowercase letters | a | b | d | e | g | i | k | m | n | o | p | r | s | t | u | w | y | z |
| IPA | /ɑ/ | /b/ | /d/ | /ɛ/ | /ɡ/ | /i/ | /k/ | /m/ | /n/ | /ɔ/ | /p/ | /ɾ/ | /s/ | /t̪/ | /u/ | /w/ | /j/ | /dz/ |
References
- Zia at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- "Organised Phonology Data" (PDF). Cite journal requires
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External links
- "Organised Phonology Data" (PDF). Cite journal requires
|journal=(help) - "A Selective Word List in Ten Different Binadere Languages" (PDF). Cite journal requires
|journal=(help) - Zia Swadesh List
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