Sudest language

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

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

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.