Adzera language

Adzera
Region	Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea
Native speakers	ca. 30,000 (2000 census)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Oceanic North New Guinea ? Ngero–Vitiaz ? Huon Gulf Markham Upper Adzera
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously: adz – Adzera zsu – Sukurum zsa – Sarasira
Glottolog	adze1240  (Adzera) suku1264  (Sukurum) sara1323  (Sarasira)

Adzera (also spelled Atzera, Azera, Atsera, Acira) is an Austronesian language spoken by about 30,000 people in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea.

Phonology

Vowels

	Front	Back
High	/i/	/u/
Low	/ɑ/

The diphthongs /ɑi ɑu/ occur, while other sequences of vowels are split over two syllables.

Consonants

		Bilabial	Labiodental	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Stop	Plain	p		t			k	ʔ
	Voiced	b		d			ɡ
	Prenasalized	ᵐp		ⁿt			ᵑk	ⁿʔ
Affricate	Plain			tʃ
	Voiced			dʒ
	Prenasalized			ⁿtʃ
Nasal		m		n			ŋ
Rhotic				r
Fricative			f	s				h
Approximant		w				j

/h/ occurs in only one word: the interjection hai "yes".

The prenasalized consonants tend to lose prenasalization initially and after consonants.

/tʃ ⁿtʃ/ are sometimes realized as [ts ⁿts], especially in codas.

Writing system

A a	B b	D d	Dz dz	F f	G g	H h	I i	K k	M m	Mp mp	N n	Nt nt
/ɑ/	/b/	/d/	/dʒ/	/f/	/ɡ/	/h/	/i/	/k/	/m/	/ᵐp/	/n/	/ⁿt/
Nts nts	Ŋ ŋ	Ŋk ŋk	Ŋʼ ŋʼ	P p	R r	S s	T t	Ts ts	U u	W w	Y y	ʼ
/ⁿtʃ/	/ŋ/	/ᵑk/	/ⁿʔ/	/p/	/r/	/s/	/t/	/tʃ/	/u/	/w/	/j/	/ʔ/

J, o and z are used in some loanwords and names.