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| Dedua | |
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| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Huon Peninsula,Morobe Province |
| Ethnicity | 8,900 (2000 census?)[1] |
Native speakers | (6,500 cited 2000 census)[1] |
Trans–New Guinea
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ded |
| Glottolog | dedu1240 |
Dedua is aPapuan language spoken inMorobe Province,Papua New Guinea. Dialects are Dzeigoc and Fanic.
The plain linked text shows IPA, while the text inangle brackets shows the orthography. If no angle brackets are shown, the orthography is the same as the IPA.
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u |
| Mid | e | o |
| Open | a |
| 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 | dʑ⟨dz⟩ | ||||||
| Trill | r | ||||||
| Approximant | j⟨y⟩ | w | |||||
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