- 'Auhelawa language
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’Auhelawa Spoken in Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea Native speakers 1,200 (date missing) Language family Austronesian- Malayo-Polynesian
- Oceanic
- Western
- Papuan Tip
- Nuclear
- Suauic
- ’Auhelawa
- Suauic
- Nuclear
- Papuan Tip
- Western
- Oceanic
Writing system Latin alphabet Language codes ISO 639-3 kud This page contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. ’Auhelawa is an Austronesian language spoken by about 1,200 people (as of 1998[update]) in Nuakata Island and the southeastern tip of Normanby Island in Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea.
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’Auhelawa examples
A: Auge, yauwedo. Haidova u lalau? (My friend, hello. Where are you going?)
B: Ya lalau oyai. Yagu oya vauvauna ya tudai. Owa haidova u lau? (I am going to the garden. I dig my new garden. Where did you go?)
A: Ya dobi gogowai yada bada ehebo ya ita. Teina gona sabate mata yana vada vauvauna ya abi. (I went down to the village to see one of our uncles. Next week I will build his new house.)
B: Yau dova nuwanuwagu yada bada ya hagui. Ebe u dobi u vada abi, u lauma u vaigau ta dobi ta paihowa. (I also want to help our uncle. When you go down to housebuild, you come and get me and we go down and work.)
A: Ausala. Mata ta itago. (Good. We will see you.)
Phonology
Vowels
Front Back High i u Mid ɛ ɔ Low a Consonants
Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal Plain Labialized Plain Labialized Plain Labialized Plain Labialized Stop Voiceless p pʷ t (k) ʔ ʔʷ Voiced b bʷ d ɡ ɡʷ Nasal m mʷ n Fricative Voiceless s h Voiced β Approximant j ɥ Lateral approximant l /k/ occurs only in loanwords.
Writing system
’Auhelawa is written in the Latin alphabet. About 85% of the population is literate.
A a B b Bw bw D d E e G g Gw gw H h I i K k L l M m Mw mw /a/ /b/ /bʷ/ /d/ /ɛ/ /ɡ/ /ɡʷ/ /h/ /i/ /k/ /l/ /m/ /mʷ/ N n O o P p Pw pw S s T t U u V v W w Y y ’ ’W ’w]] /n/ /ɔ/ /p/ /pʷ/ /s/ /t/ /u/ /β/ /ɥ/ /j/ /ʔ/ /ʔʷ/ External links
Categories:- Language articles with undated speaker data
- Nuclear Papuan Tip languages
- Languages of Milne Bay Province
- Austronesian language stubs
- Malayo-Polynesian
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