Ramoaaina (Ramuaina) is an

Oceanic language The approximately 450 Oceanic languages are a branch of the Austronesian languages. The area occupied by speakers of these languages includes Polynesia, as well as much of Melanesia and Micronesia. Though covering a vast area, Oceanic languages ...

spoken on the

Duke of York Islands The Duke of York Islands (formerly german: link=no, Neu lauenburg) are a group of islands located in East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea. They are found in StGeorge's Channel between New Britain and New Ireland islands and form part o ...

off eastern New Ireland.

Phonology

Phoneme inventory of the Ramoaaina language: /s/ is used, but mainly in loanwords.

References

External links

* Materials on Ramoaaina are included in the open access

Arthur Capell Arthur Capell (28 March 1902 – 10 August 1986) was an Australian linguist, who made major contributions to the study of Australian languages, Austronesian languages and Papuan languages. Early life Capell was born in Newtown, New South Wales ...

collections
AC1
an
AC2
and Malcolm Ross collection
MR1
held by

Paradisec The Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) is a cross-institutional project that supports work on endangered languages and cultures of the Pacific and the region around Australia. They digitise reel- ...

Digitised microfilm images from Pacific Manuscripts Bureau (PAMBU) including Ramoaaina
Languages of East New Britain Province St George linkage {{MesoMelanesian-lang-stub