Takia language

Takia
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Madang Province
Native speakers	(undated figure of 40,000)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Oceanic North New Guinea ? Ngero–Vitiaz Bel Nuclear Bel Northern Takia
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tbc
Glottolog	taki1248

Takia is an Austronesian language spoken on Karkar Island, Bagabag Island, and coastal villages Megiar and Serang, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. It has been syntactically restructured by Waskia, a Papuan language spoken on the island.

Children are discouraged from using Takia, and it is being supplanted by Tok Pisin and English.^{[citation needed]}

Phonology

Consonant sounds

	Labial	Alveolar	Velar
Plosive	p b	t d	k g
Nasal	m	n	ŋ
Fricative	f	s
Rhotic		r
Lateral		l
Glide	w		j

Voiced stops can be optionally prenasalised word initially as [ᵐb, ⁿd, ᵑɡ] in some dialects.

Vowel sounds

	Front	Central	Back
High	i		u
Mid	e		o
Low		a

/a/ is heard as [æ] before a consonant preceding /i/. The sequence /ae/ is pronounced word-initially and word-medially as [æː].^[2]

References

1. Takia at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
2. Ross, Malcolm (2002). Takia. John Lynch and Malcolm Ross and Terry Crowley (eds.), The Oceanic Languages: Richmond: Curzon. pp. 216–248.

External links

• Takia Vocabulary List (from the World Loanword Database)
• Kaipuleohone has archived a Takia word list as part of Robert Blust's field notes