Ramoaaina language

Ramoaaina
Duke of York
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Duke of York Islands (East New Britain Province)
Native speakers	(10,300 cited 2000 census) [1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Meso-Melanesian (St George linkage) Kandas–Ramoaaina Ramoaaina
Language codes
ISO 639-3	rai
Glottolog	ramo1244

Ramoaaina (Ramuaina) is an Oceanic language spoken on the Duke of York Islands off eastern New Ireland.

Phonology

Phoneme inventory of the Ramoaaina language: ^[2]

Consonant sounds

		Labial	Alveolar	Velar
Nasal		m	n	ŋ
Plosive	voiceless	p	t	k
	voiced	b	d	g
Fricative			( s )
Rhotic			r
Lateral			l
Semivowel		w

/s/ is used, but mainly in loanwords.

Vowel sounds

	Front	Central	Back
High	i		u
Mid	e	ɘ	o
Low		a

References

1. Ramoaaina at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Davies, Robyn; Fritzell, Lisbeth (1992). Duke of York grammar essentials (Ramoaaine). Ukarumpa: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

External links

• Materials on Ramoaaina are included in the open access Arthur Capell collections (AC1 and AC2) and Malcolm Ross collection (MR1) held by Paradisec
• Digitised microfilm images from Pacific Manuscripts Bureau (PAMBU) including Ramoaaina