Suau language

Suau, also known as Iou, is an Oceanic language spoken in the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken by 6,800 people and a further 14,000 as a lingua franca.

Phonology

• Some village dialects also include a fricative sound .
• can also be heard as a flap in free variation.
• may also rarely be pronounced as among speakers.

External links

• Ekalesia Bukana (1895), Anglican Morning Prayer in Suau, digitized by Richard Mammana
• Paradisec has a number of collections of Suau materials, including two collections of Arthur Cappell's (AC1, AC2).

References