molima, language, molima, austronesian, language, spoken, entrecasteaux, islands, papua, guinea, molimasalakahadifagululunative, topapua, guinearegionfergusson, island, milne, provincenative, speakers4, 2000, census, language, familyaustronesian, malayo, polyn. Molima is an Austronesian language spoken in the D Entrecasteaux Islands of Papua New Guinea MolimaSalakahadiFagululuNative toPapua New GuineaRegionFergusson Island Milne Bay ProvinceNative speakers4 000 2000 census 1 Language familyAustronesian Malayo PolynesianOceanicWestern OceanicPapuan TipNuclear Papuan TipNorth Papuan Mainland D EntrecasteauxDobu DuauMolimaDialectsTola ai Ai alu Tosila aiLanguage codesISO 639 3 a href https iso639 3 sil org code mox class extiw title iso639 3 mox mox a Glottologmoli1248 Contents 1 Phonology 1 1 Consonants 1 2 Vowels 2 ReferencesPhonology editConsonants edit Labial Dental Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal plain lab plain lab plain lab Plosive voiceless t k kʷ ʔ ʔʷ voiced b bʷ d ɡ ɡʷ Fricative voiceless ɸ ɸʷ s h voiced v ʝ ɣ Nasal m mʷ n Lateral l Approximant j w p may also occur as an allophone of ɸ or as a result of borrowed words from Dobu Motu or English v can be weakened as ʋ in all environments in free variation i when preceding a vowel may also be realized as a semivowel j 2 Vowels edit Front Central Back Close i u Mid e o Open aReferences edit Molima at Ethnologue 18th ed 2015 subscription required Engkvist Leif amp Helena 2002 Organized Phonology Data of Molima Language Tola ai dialect nbsp This Papua New Guinea related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte This article about Papuan Tip languages is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Molima language amp oldid 1205883418, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
