Zia language

For the people, see Zia people (Papua New Guinea).

For Zia Pueblo language, see Keresan languages.

Zia is a Papuan language spoken in the Lower Waria Valley in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. It is part of the Binandere subgroup of the Trans–New Guinea phylum of languages (Ross, 2005).^{[full citation needed]}

Zia
Pronunciation	[d̪ia]
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	lower Waria Valley, Morobe Province
Ethnicity	Zia
Native speakers	(4,500 cited 2000)[1]
Language family	Trans–New Guinea Binanderean Zia–Yekora Zia
Dialects	Zia Mawae
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	zia
Glottolog	ziaa1250

Orthography

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Uppercase letters	A	B	D	E	G	I	K	M	N	O	P	R	S	T	U	W	Y	Z
Lowercase letters	a	b	d	e	g	i	k	m	n	o	p	r	s	t	u	w	y	z
IPA	/ɑ/	/b/	/d/	/ɛ/	/ɡ/	/i/	/k/	/m/	/n/	/ɔ/	/p/	/ɾ/	/s/	/t̪/	/u/	/w/	/j/	/dz/