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Austronesian language spoken in Papua New Guinea
Takia is an
Austronesian language spoken on
Karkar Island, Bagabag Island, and coastal villages Megiar and Serang,
Madang Province,
Papua New Guinea. It has been
syntactically restructured by
Waskia, a
Papuan language spoken on the island.
Children are discouraged from using Takia, and it is being supplanted by
Tok Pisin and English.[
citation needed]
Phonology
Voiced stops can be optionally prenasalised word initially as [ᵐb, ⁿd, ᵑɡ] in some dialects.
/a/ is heard as [æ] before a consonant preceding /i/. The sequence /ae/ is pronounced word-initially and word-medially as [æː].
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References
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^
Takia at
Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
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^ Ross, Malcolm (2002). Takia. John Lynch and Malcolm Ross and Terry Crowley (eds.), The Oceanic Languages: Richmond: Curzon. pp. 216–248.
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- * indicates proposed status
- ? indicates classification dispute
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