Zia is a Papuan language spoken in the Lower Waria Valley in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. It is part of the Binandere subgroup of the Trans–New Guinea phylum of languages (Ross, 2005).[full citation needed]
| Zia | |
|---|---|
| Pronunciation | [d̪ia] |
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | lower Waria Valley, Morobe Province |
| Ethnicity | Zia |
Native speakers | (4,500 cited 2000)[1] |
Trans–New Guinea
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| Dialects |
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| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | zia |
| Glottolog | ziaa1250 |
Orthography
editReferences
edit- ↑ Zia at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ↑ "Organised Phonology Data". SIL. 21 September 2004. Archived from the original on 19 July 2020.
Further reading
edit- Farr, James; Larsen, Robert. "A Selective Word List in Ten Different Binadere Languages" (PDF). SIL. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 July 2018. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
- "Zia Swadesh List". The Rosetta Project. 16 September 2010 – via Internet Archive.