- Source: Suau language
Suau, also known as Iou, is an Oceanic language spoken in the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken by 6,800 people and a further 14,000 as a lingua franca.
Phonology
Some village dialects also include a fricative sound [f].
/l/ can also be heard as a flap [ɾ] in free variation.
/w/ may also rarely be pronounced as [v, β] among speakers.
External links
Ekalesia Bukana (1895), Anglican Morning Prayer in Suau, digitized by Richard Mammana
Paradisec has a number of collections of Suau materials, including two collections of Arthur Cappell's (AC1, AC2).
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Suau language
- Suau
- Mbula language
- Mizo language
- Suau Rural LLG
- Polynesian languages
- Papuan Tip languages
- Hawaiian language
- Moriori language
- Rapa Nui language
