- Adzera language
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Adzera Spoken in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea Native speakers 30,000 (date missing) Language family Writing system Latin alphabet Language codes ISO 639-3 variously:
adz – Adzera
zsu – Sukurum
zsa – SarasiraThis page contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. Adzera (also spelled Atzera, Azera, Atsera, Acira) is an Austronesian language spoken by about 30,000 people in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea.
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Phonology
Vowels
Front Back High /i/ /u/ Low /ɑ/ The diphthongs /ɑi ɑu/ occur, while other sequences of vowels are split over two syllables.
Consonants
Bilabial Labiodental Alveolar Postalveolar Palatal Velar Glottal Stop Plain p t k ʔ Voiced b d ɡ Prenasalized ᵐp ⁿt ᵑk ⁿʔ Affricate Plain tʃ Voiced dʒ Prenasalized ⁿtʃ Nasal m n ŋ Rhotic r Fricative f s h Approximant w j /h/ occurs in only one word: the interjection hai "yes".
The prenasalized consonants tend to lose prenasalization initially and after consonants.
/tʃ ⁿtʃ/ are sometimes realized as [ts ⁿts], especially in codas.
Writing system
A a B b D d Dz dz F f G g H h I i K k M m Mp mp N n Nt nt /ɑ/ /b/ /d/ /dʒ/ /f/ /ɡ/ /h/ /i/ /k/ /m/ /ᵐp/ /n/ /ⁿt/ Nts nts Ŋ ŋ Ŋk ŋk Ŋʼ ŋʼ P p R r S s T t Ts ts U u W w Y y ʼ /ⁿtʃ/ /ŋ/ /ᵑk/ /ⁿʔ/ /p/ /r/ /s/ /t/ /tʃ/ /u/ /w/ /j/ /ʔ/ J, o and z are used in some loanwords and names.
References
- Cates, Ann R. (1974). "The Atzera literacy programme: An experimental campaign in Papua New Guinea". Papua New Guinea Journal of Education 10: 34–38.
- Holzknecht, K. G. (1973). "The phonemes of the Adzera language". Pacific Linguistics A 38: 1–11.
- Holzknecht, K. G. (1973). "Morphophonemics of the Adzera language". Pacific Linguistics A 38: 13–19.
- Holzknecht, K. G. (1973). "A synopsis of the verb forms in Adzera". Pacific Linguistics A 38: 21–28.
- Holzknecht, K. G. (1978). Adzera–English dictionary.
- Holzknecht, S. (1986). "A morphology and grammar of Adzera (Amari dialect), Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea". Pacific Linguistics A 70: 77–166.
- Howard, David Edward (2002). Continuity and given-new status of discourse referents in Adzera oral narrative.. M.A. thesis. University of Texas at Arlington.
- Roke, Ann; Price, Dorothy (1970). A summary of the Atzera literacy programme. Ukarumpa: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
External links
Categories:- Language articles with undated speaker data
- Western Oceanic languages
- Languages of Morobe Province
- Austronesian language stubs
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