Zia language

For the people, see Zia people (Papua New Guinea).

For Zia Pueblo language, see Keresan languages.

Zia is a Papuan language spoken in the Lower Waria Valley in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. It is part of the Binandere subgroup of the Trans–New Guinea phylum of languages (Ross, 2005).

Zia
Pronunciation	[d̪ia]
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	lower Waria Valley, Morobe Province
Ethnicity	Zia
Native speakers	4,500 (2000)^[1]
Language family	Trans–New Guinea Binanderean Zia–Yekora Zia
Dialects	Zia Mawae
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	zia
Glottolog	ziaa1250

Orthography

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Uppercase letters	A	B	D	E	G	I	K	M	N	O	P	R	S	T	U	W	Y	Z
Lowercase letters	a	b	d	e	g	i	k	m	n	o	p	r	s	t	u	w	y	z
IPA	/ɑ/	/b/	/d/	/ɛ/	/ɡ/	/i/	/k/	/m/	/n/	/ɔ/	/p/	/ɾ/	/s/	/t̪/	/u/	/w/	/j/	/dz/

References

1. Zia at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. "Organised Phonology Data" (PDF). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

External links

• "Organised Phonology Data" (PDF). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
• "A Selective Word List in Ten Different Binadere Languages" (PDF). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
• Zia Swadesh List