| Misima | |
| Also Known As: | Misima-Panaeati |
| Region: | Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea |
| Speakers: | 18,000 |
| Speakers2: | 4,000 monolinguals |
| Date: | 2002 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | Austronesian |
| Fam2: | Malayo-Polynesian |
| Fam3: | Oceanic |
| Fam4: | Western |
| Fam5: | Papuan Tip |
| Fam6: | Peripheral |
| Fam7: | Kilivila–Misima |
| Script: | Latin |
| Iso3: | mpx |
| Glotto: | misi1243 |
| Glottorefname: | Misima-Paneati |
| Notice: | IPA |
Misima-Panaeati, also called Misiman, is an indigenous Austronesian language spoken on the islands of Misima, Panaeati, and the islands of the eastern half of the Calvados Chain of Papua New Guinea.
Misima-Paneati has five vowel phonemes.
| Front | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i pronounced as //i// | u pronounced as //u// | |
| Mid | e pronounced as //e// | o pronounced as //o// | |
| Low | a pronounced as //a ~ ə ~ ʌ// | ||
Misima-Paneati has 17 consonant phonemes.
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plain | Labialized | Plain | Labialized | Plain | |||||
| Stop | Voiceless | p pronounced as //p// | pw pronounced as //pʷ// | t pronounced as //t// | k pronounced as //k// | ||||
| Voiced | b pronounced as //b// | bw pronounced as //bʷ// | d pronounced as //d// | g pronounced as //ɡ// | gw pronounced as //ɡʷ// | ||||
| Nasal | m pronounced as //m// | mw pronounced as //mʷ// | n pronounced as //n ~ ŋ// | ||||||
| Fricative | Voiceless | s pronounced as //s// | h pronounced as //h// | ||||||
| Voiced | v pronounced as //β// | ||||||||
| Approximant | y pronounced as //j ~ ʝ// | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l pronounced as //l// | ||||||||
In Misima-Paneati, the following syllable types commonly occur: V, CV, CVC, and VC.
The open syllables V and CV are found in all positions of words, whereas the closed syllables CVC and VC are only found word finally and across morpheme boundaries, with the exception of the following five words:
The only monomorphemic consonant clusters that always occur across syllable boundaries are: