Dedua language
{{Short description|Language spoken in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea}}{{Multiple issues|{{more citations needed|date=January 2024}}{{inline citations|date=January 2024}}}}{{Infobox language
|name = Dedua
|states = Papua New Guinea
|region = Huon Peninsula, Morobe Province
|ethnicity = 8,900 (2000 census?)
|speakers = 6,500
|date = 2000 census
|ref = e18
|familycolor = Papuan
|fam1 = Trans–New Guinea
|fam2 = Finisterre–Huon
|fam3 = Huon
|fam4 = Eastern Huon
|iso3 = ded
|glotto=dedu1240
|glottorefname=Dedua
}}
Dedua is a Papuan language spoken in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. Dialects are Dzeigoc and Fanic.
Phonology
The plain linked text shows IPA, while the text in angle brackets shows the orthography. If no angle brackets are shown, the orthography is the same as the IPA.
= Vowels =
= Consonants =
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
! colspan="2" | |
| rowspan="2" |Plosive
!voiceless |{{IPA link|p}} |{{IPA link|t}} | |{{IPA link|k}} |{{IPA link|k͡p}} {{angbr|kp}} |{{IPA link|ʔ}} {{angbr|h/c}} |
|---|
| voiced
|{{IPA link|b}} |{{IPA link|d}} | |{{IPA link|g}} |{{IPA link|ɡ͡b}} {{angbr|gb}} | |
| colspan="2" |Nasal
|{{IPA link|m}} |{{IPA link|n}} | |{{IPA link|ŋ}} {{angbr|ng}} | | |
| colspan="2" |Fricative
|{{IPA link|f}} |{{IPA link|s}} | | | | |
| colspan="2" |Affricate
| | | {{IPA link|dʑ}} {{angbr|dz}} | | | |
| colspan="2" |Trill
| |{{IPA link|r}} | | | | |
| colspan="2" |Approximant
| | |{{IPA link|j}} {{angbr|y}} | |{{IPA link|w}} | |
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- [https://www.sil.org/system/files/reapdata/42/95/01/42950186273244930282190760564470017286/Dedua.pdf Dedua phonology data]
{{Languages of Papua New Guinea}}
{{Finisterre–Huon languages}}
Category:Languages of Morobe Province
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