Ririo language

Ririo is a nearly extinct indigenous language of Choiseul Province, Solomon Islands.

Ririo
Native to	Solomon Islands
Native speakers	18 (2007)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Meso-Melanesian Northwest Solomonic Choiseul Ririo
Language codes
ISO 639-3	rri
Glottolog	riri1237
ELP	Ririo
Ririo is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Phonology

Consonants

Ririo has 18 consonant phonemes.

Ririo consonant phonemes^[2]

		Labial	Alveolar	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n	ŋ
Stop	voiceless	p	t	k	ʔ
	prenasalized	ᵐb	ⁿd	ᵑg
Affricate	voiceless		ts
	prenasalized		ⁿdz
Fricative		v[a]	s, z	ɣ
Approximant			l
Trill			r

1. /β/ is considered to be an allophone.

Vowels

Ririo has 9 vowel phonemes.

Ririo vowel phonemes^[2]

	Front	Back
Close	i	u
Close-mid	e, ø	o
Open-mid	ɛ, œ	ɔ
Open	a

References

1. Ririo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Don, Laycock (1982). "74". Papers from the Third International Conference on Austronesian Linguistic (PDF). Vol. 1. The Australian National University. p. 273. doi:10.15144/PL-C74.269.

External links

• ELAR archive of Ririo language documentation materials
• Paradisec has a number of collections with Ririo materials