Hiw (sometimes spelled Hiu) is an Oceanic language spoken on the island of Hiw, in the Torres Islands of Vanuatu. With about 280 speakers, Hiw is considered...
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HIW or Hiw may refer to: Hiw, or Hu, Egypt Hiroshima-Nishi Airport, by IATA code Hiw (island), the northernmost island of Vanuatu Hiw language, spoken...
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Hiw (sometimes spelled Hiu) is the northernmost island in Vanuatu, located in Torba Province. The island's name Hiw [hiw] is taken from the local Hiw...
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branch of the Austronesian languages. More specifically, it is the shared ancestor of the following modern languages: Hiw, Lo-Toga, Lehali, Löyöp, Volow...
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Close-mid central rounded vowel (category Articles containing Hiw-language text)
König, Ekkehard; van der Auwera, Johan (eds.), The Germanic Languages, Routledge language family descriptions, Routledge, pp. 271–312, ISBN 978-0-415-28079-2...
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hiw, [kʰa᷇ː hǐw]) I am hungry. ᨡ᩶ᩣᨧᩢᩉᩥ᩠ᩅ / ข้าจะหิว (kha cha hiw, [kʰa᷇ː t͡ɕa.hǐw]) I will be hungry. ᨡ᩶ᩣᨠ᩵ᩣᩴᩃᩢ᩠ᨦᩉᩥ᩠ᩅ / ข้ากะลังหิว (kha kalang hiw,...
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Voiced velar lateral affricate (category Articles containing Hiw-language text)
though in extIPA ⟨ɡ͜𝼄̬⟩ is preferred. This consonant exists in the Hiw and Ekagi languages. Features of the voiced velar lateral affricate: Its manner of...
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distinction between dialects and languages. Conversely, Lo-Toga is a distinct language from the other language of the Torres group, Hiw. The Lo dialect of Lo-Toga...
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/tɕʰǎn หิว hio hǐw/ ฉัน หิว chan hio /tɕʰǎn hǐw/ 'I am hungry.' ฉัน chan /tɕʰǎn จะ cha tɕàʔ หิว hio hǐw/ ฉัน จะ หิว chan cha hio /tɕʰǎn tɕàʔ hǐw/ 'I will be...
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Velar consonant (category Articles containing Hiw-language text)
/k/ in keen or cube) are sometimes referred to as palatovelars. Many languages also have labialized velars, such as [kʷ], in which the articulation is...
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tə-GAH-log; [tɐˈɣaː.loɡ]; Baybayin: ᜆᜄᜎᜓᜄ᜔) is an Austronesian language spoken as a first language by the ethnic Tagalog people, who make up a quarter of the...
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Malay: Bahasa Melayu, Jawi: بهاس ملايو) is an Austronesian language that is an official language of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore, and that...
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is a list of endangered languages of Oceania, based on the definitions used by UNESCO. An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling...
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indoˈnesija]) is the official and national language of Indonesia. It is a standardized variety of Malay, an Austronesian language that has been used as a lingua franca...
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Torres Islands (category Articles with Spanish-language sources (es))
distinct languages are spoken in the Torres group: Hiw and Lo-Toga. Hiw is spoken by the population (about 280 people) of the sole island of Hiw. Lo-Toga...
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pronounced [ʔoːˈlɛlo həˈvɐjʔi]) is a Polynesian language and critically endangered language of the Austronesian language family that takes its name from Hawaiʻi...
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"һыу" (hıw, "water") or "ҡом" (qom, "sand"). Bashkir at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023) Moseley, Christopher (2010). "Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger"...
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Proto-Oceanic *w or *y > p in Levei Khehek Proto-Oceanic *r or *R > g͡ʟ in Hiw Proto-Polynesian *l or *r > ŋg (via *ɣ or *ʁ) in Rennellese Proto-Polynesian...
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western Java. It is the native language of more than 68 million people. Javanese is the largest of the Austronesian languages in number of native speakers...
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Hiu or HIU may refer to: Hiw Island, or Hiu, in Vanuatu Hiw language, or Hiu, spoken on Hiu Island Hiu Station, in Sasebo City, Nagasaki, Japan Helmholtz...
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The Austronesian languages (/ˌɔːstrəˈniːʒən/ AW-strə-NEE-zhən) are a language family widely spoken throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland...
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idioma samareño meaning Samar language) is an Austronesian language and the fifth-most-spoken native regional language of the Philippines, native to Eastern...
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Teor and Kur are two Austronesian language varieties of the Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian branch spoken near Kei Island, Indonesia. They are reportedly...
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Kutai is a Malayic language spoken by 300,000 to 500,000 people. It is the native language of the Kutai people (Indonesian: Suku Kutai, Kutai: Urang Kutai)[what...
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(rue bo) /lɯ̌ː bɔ́ː/ Or not? เจ้าหิวข้าวหรือบ่ (chao hio khao rue bo) /tɕâw hǐw kʰȁw lɯ̌ː bɔ́ː/ Are you hungry or not? Answers to questions usually just...
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The Turkic languages are a language family of more than 35 documented languages, spoken by the Turkic peoples of Eurasia from Eastern Europe and Southern...
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The Bisayan languages or Visayan languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages spoken in the Philippines. They are most closely related to Tagalog...
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Southwest Guajiboan Guayabero (also known as Cunimía, Mítiwa, Mitúa, Mitu, Hiw, Jiw, Wayavero, Guaviare) Churuya (also known as Bisanigua, Guaigua) (†)...
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Voiced labial–velar nasal (category Articles containing Adangme-language text)
François, Alexandre (2010). "Phonotactics and the prestopped velar lateral of Hiw: Resolving the ambiguity of a complex segment" (PDF). Phonology. 27 (3):...
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to the Malayic languages, as well as to language groups spoken in Borneo such as the Land Dayak languages or the Kayan–Murik languages, based on high...
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