Asụsụ Mailu

Mailu, ma ọ bụ Magi (Magɨ), bụ asụsụ Papuan nke Papua New Guinea .

Nchịkọta

Magi bụ asụsụ na-abụghị nke Ọstrelia nke ihe karịrị mmadụ 6000 bi n'agwaetiti Mailu, Laluoru, Loupomu na Eunuoro na n'akụkụ ụsọ oké osimiri ndịda dị n'etiti Cape Rodney na etiti Orangerie Bay nke Central Province nke Papua New Guinea na-asụ. A na-akpọkarị ya 'Mailu' dịka otu n'ime obodo ndị bụ isi na-asụ asụsụ a bụ obodo nke aha ahụ dị na Mailu Island. Ọ metụtara asụsụ ndị ọzọ nke ezinụlọ Mailuan (Ma, Laua, Morawa, Neme'a, Domu na Bauwaki nke ndị na-asụ ya bi ma ọ bụ bi n'ime ime obodo a). Ma na Laua anwụọla ugbu a.

Ndị na-asụ Magi nwere ogologo oge na-enwe mmekọrịta chiri anya na (ma eleghị anya) njikọta na ndị na-asụ Austronesian, n'ihi na e nweela nnukwu nnabata nke okwu Austronesia (ihe dị ka 30-40%, karịsịa Magori, Gadaisu, Suau, Ouma, Yoba na Bina, nke atọ ikpeazụ na-apụ n'anya ugbu a).

N'aka nke ya, Magori (yana Yoba, Bina, na Ouma ) enwetawo mmetụta dị ukwuu site n'aka ndị Magi.

E kewara Magi n'onwe ya ụzọ abụọ bụ isi nke olumba: olumba ọwụwa anyanwụ (Maisi/Varo), na olumba ọdịda anyanwụ (Island).

fonology

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	enweghị olu	p	t		k	ʔ
	kwuputara	b	d		ɡ
Nke na-ese okwu		(v)	(s)
imi		m	n
Mmiri mmiri			l, (n)
Odika		w		j

• A na-eji /t/ eme ihe n'otu n'otu na fricative [s], ma bụrụkwa onye mmekọ [ts] n'etiti ndị ọkà okwu ochie.

• /l, w/ na-eji ụda olu [ɾ, v].

Udaume

	N'ihu	Central	Azu
Elu	i		u
N'etiti	e		o
Dị ala		a

Hụkwa

• Asụsụ Magori, asụsụ Austronesian-Papuan agwakọta dị nso

Ihe ndetu

Papua New Guinea na-asụ. A na-akpọkarị ya 'Mailu' dịka otu n'ime obodo ndị bụ isi na-asụ asụsụ a bụ obodo nke aha ahụ dị na Mailu Island. Ọ metụtara asụsụ ndị ọzọ nke

Ntụaka

• Saville (Jul–Dec 1912). "A Grammar of the Mailu Language, Papua". Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 42: 397–436. DOI:10.2307/2843195. 
• Thomson, N P, 1975, "Magi Phonology and Grammar: Fifty Years Afterwards", in T E Dutton, Ed., "Studies in Languages of Central and South-East Papua,  , Pub. by The Australian National University, Pacific Linguistics, Series C, No 29.
• Thomson, N P, 1975, "The Dialects of Magi", in "Papers in New Guinea Linguistics No 18",  , Pub. by The Australian National University, Pacific Linguistics, Series A No 40.

Njikọ mpụga

• Ndepụta Mailu Swadesh nke Rosetta Project na ebe nchekwa ịntanetị