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Not to be confused with Arop-Sissano language.
Sissano
Region West Aitape Rural LLG, Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea
Native speakers
300 (2000) [1]
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. [2] 4,800 speakers were reported in 1990, but the 1998 tsunami wiped out most of the population. [1]

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

  1. ^ a b Sissano at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ 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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