Dedua is a Papuan language spoken in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. Dialects are Dzeigoc and Fanic.
Phonology
The plain linked text shows IPA, while the text in angle brackets shows the orthography. If no angle brackets are shown, the orthography is the same as the IPA.
Vowels
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u |
| Mid | e | o |
| Open | a |
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labial–velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | k͡p ⟨kp⟩ | ʔ ⟨h/c⟩ | |
| voiced | b | d | g | ɡ͡b ⟨gb⟩ | |||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ ⟨ng⟩ | ||||
| Fricative | f | s | |||||
| Affricate | dz | ||||||
| Trill | r | ||||||
| Approximant | j ⟨y⟩ | w | |||||
References
- ^ a b Dedua at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)