| Misima | |
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| Misima-Panaeati | |
| Region | Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea |
Native speakers | 18,000 (2002)[1] 4,000 monolinguals |
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| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mpx |
| Glottolog | misi1243 |
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Misima-Panaeati, also called Misiman, is an indigenous Austronesian language spoken on the islands of Misima, Panaeati, and the islands of the eastern half of the Calvados ChainofPapua New Guinea.
Misima-Paneati has five vowel phonemes.[2]
| Front | Back | |
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| High | i /i/ | u /u/ |
| Mid | e /e/ | o /o/ |
| Low | a /a ~ ə ~ ʌ/ | |
Misima-Paneati has 17 consonant phonemes.[2]
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||
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| Plain | Labialized | Plain | Labialized | Plain | |||||
| Stop | Voiceless | p /p/ | pw /pʷ/ | t /t/ | k /k/ | ||||
| Voiced | b /b/ | bw /bʷ/ | d /d/ | g /ɡ/ | gw /ɡʷ/ | ||||
| Nasal | m /m/ | mw /mʷ/ | n /n ~ ŋ/ | ||||||
| Fricative | Voiceless | s /s/ | h /h/ | ||||||
| Voiced | v /β/ | ||||||||
| Approximant | y /j ~ ʝ/ | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l /l/ | ||||||||
In Misima-Paneati, the following syllable types commonly occur: V, CV, CVC, and VC.[3]
The open syllables V and CV are found in all positions of words, whereas the closed syllables CVC and VC are only found word finally and across morpheme boundaries, with the exception of the following five words:[3]
The only monomorphemic consonant clusters that always occur across syllable boundaries are:[4]
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