Sudest language

Sudest
Tagula
Region	Tagula Island, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea
Native speakers	(2,000 cited 1987)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Papuan Tip Nimoa–Sudest Sudest
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tgo
Glottolog	sude1239

Sudest, also known as Tagula, is an Oceanic language of Papua New Guinea.

Name

The name Sudest is a word meaning 'southeast' in French or Italian.^[relevant?]

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial		Dental/ Alveolar	Palatal	Velar
		plain	lab.			plain	lab.
Plosive	voiceless	p	pʷ	t		k	kʷ
	voiced	b	bʷ	d	ɟ	ɡ	ɡʷ
	prenasal	ᵐb	ᵐbʷ	ⁿd	ᶮɟ	ᵑɡ	ᵑɡʷ
Fricative	voiced	β	βʷ	ð		ɣ	ɣʷ
	voiceless			s
Nasal		m	mʷ	n	ɲ	ŋ	ŋʷ
Rhotic				r
Lateral				l
Approximant					j		w

• /ɣ/ is heard as a glottal [h] before /o/ or /u/.
• /ɣʷ/ is heard as [hʷ], in free variation within different dialects.
• /β, βʷ/ are originally bilabial, although many speakers under the influence of English pronounce them as labio-dental [v, vʷ].^[2]

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Mid	e	ə	o
Open		a

External links

• Paradisec has two collections of Arthur Cappell's materials (AC1, AC2) and one collection of Malcolm Ross's (MR1) materials that include Sudest-language materials.

References

1. Sudest at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Anderson, Mike; Ross, Malcolm (2002). Sudest. The Oceanic Languages: Richmond: Curzon. pp. 322–346.