| Sissano | |
|---|---|
| Region | West Aitape Rural LLG, Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea |
| Native speakers | (300 cited 2000) |
| Language family | Austronesian |
| Writing system | Latin |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | sso |
| Glottolog | siss1243 |
| ELP | Sissano |
 Sissano is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
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Sissano is an Austronesian language spoken by at most a few hundred people around Sissano in West Aitape Rural LLG, Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea. 4,800 speakers were reported in 1990, but the 1998 tsunami wiped out most of the population.
Phonology
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | u | |
| Mid | e | (ə) | o |
| Low | a |
Consonants
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | |
| voiced | (b) | (d) | (g) | |||
| Fricative | voiceless | s | ||||
| voiced | β | (ɣ) | ||||
| Approximant | central | j | ||||
| lateral | l | ʎ | ||||
| Rhotic | r | |||||
References
- ^ Sissano at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Papua New Guinea languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
- Laycock, Don (1973). "Sissano Warapu and Melanesian Pidginization". Oceanic Linguistics. 12 (1/2). University of Hawai'i Press: 245–277. doi:10.2307/3622856. JSTOR 3622856.
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