Shiaxa language

{{Infobox language

|name=Shiaxa

|altname=South Awyu

|nativename=Yenimu

|region=Papua, Indonesia

|speakers={{sigfig|13210|2}} including Edera{{fix|text=Ethn is broken again}}

|date=2002

|ref=e18

|familycolor=Papuan

|fam1=Trans–New Guinea

|fam2=Greater Awyu

|fam3=Awyu–Dumut

|fam4=Awyu

|dia1=Shiaxa

|dia2=Yenimu

|iso3=aws

|glotto=sout2941

|glottorefname=South Awyu

}}

Shiaxa (Sjiagha) and Yenimu (Jénimu, Oser), together known as South Awyu, are a Papuan language or languages of Papua, Indonesia. Whether they constitute one language or two depends on one's criteria for a 'language'. The two varieties are,[https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/families/trans-new-guinea/central-west-new-guinea/digul-river-ok/digul-river/central-digul-river/awyu New Guinea World - Awyu]

Bamgi River Awyu (Oser, Yenimu/Jénimu)
Ia River Awyu (Shiaxa/Sjìagha)

Phonology

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" \|+Consonants ! colspan="2" \| !Labial !Alveolar !Dorsal
colspan="2" \|Nasal \|m \|n \|
rowspan="2" \|Plosive !voiceless \|p \|t \|k
voiced \|b \|d \|ɡ
colspan="2" \|Fricative \|f \|s \|x
colspan="2" \|Tap \| \|ɾ \|
colspan="2" \|Glide \|w \| \|j

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|+Consonants

! colspan="2" |

!Labial

!Alveolar

!Dorsal

colspan="2" |Nasal

rowspan="2" |Plosive

!voiceless

voiced

|ɡ

colspan="2" |Fricative

colspan="2" |Tap

|ɾ

colspan="2" |Glide

Word-initial voiced stops /b, d, ɡ/ may have prenasalized allophones [ᵐb, ⁿd, ᵑɡ] when the preceding word within a sentence ends in a vowel.
/s/ may have an allophone of [ɕ] when preceding /i/, and may also have an affricate allophone [ts] in word-initial positions.
/x/ may be voiced as [ɣ] in intervocalic positions.
/n/ when in word-final position, may nasalize a preceding vowel [Ṽ].
In the Yenimu dialect, /ɾ/ may also have lateral allophones as [l] or [ɺ].{{Cite book |last=Voorhoeve |first=C. L. |title=Proto-Awyu-Dumut phonology II |publisher=Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University |year=2001 |location=In Andrew Pawley and Malcolm Ross and Darrell Tryon (eds.), The Boy from Bundaberg: Studies in Melanesian Linguistics in Honor of Tom Dutton |pages=361-381}}

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" \|+Vowels ! !Front !Central !Back
High \|i \| \|u
Mid \|e \| \|o
Low \| \|a \|

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"

|+Vowels

References

External links

Shiaxa at the Awyu–Ndumut research group at VU University Amsterdam: [http://www2.let.vu.nl/oz/awyu-ndumut/shiaxa.php]

Category:Languages of Western New Guinea

Category:Awyu–Dumut languages