Takia is an Austronesian language spoken on Karkar Island, Bagabag Island, and coastal villages Megiar and Serang, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. It has been syntactically restructured by Waskia, a Papuan language spoken on the island.
Children are discouraged from using Takia, and it is being supplanted by Tok Pisin and English.
Phonology + Consonant sounds Labial Alveolar VelarPlosive Nasal FricativeRhoticLateralGlide Voiced stops can be optionally prenasalised word initially as in some dialects. + Vowel sounds FrontCentral Back High Mid Low is heard as before a consonant preceding . The sequence is pronounced word-initially and word-medially as .
References
External links Takia Vocabulary List (from the World Loanword Database) Kaipuleohone has archived a Takia word list as part of Robert Blust's field notes