Sissano language

Not to be confused with Arop-Sissano language.

Sissano
Region	West Aitape Rural LLG, Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea
Native speakers	(300 cited 2000) [1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Schouten Siau Sissano
Writing system	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. 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.