Sop language

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Sop
Sob
Spoken in	Papua New Guinea
Region	Madang Province
Total speakers	2,500
Language family	Trans–New Guinea Madang Rai Coast Peka Family Sop
Language codes
ISO 639-1	None
ISO 639-2
ISO 639-3	urw
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Sop (also Sob, Usino) is a Rai Coast language spoken in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea by approximately 2,500 people.

The Sop language has been labelled under several different names. Among the names are Usino, Usina, Sopu, and Igoi. The Ethnologue uses the name Usino for this language. Its Ethnologue code is URW. Usino is the name of one of the villages and the name used for the government station. The speakers of this language do not recognise the name Usino as a name for their language. They use Sop as the name for their language.

[edit] Consonants

	Labial	Apical	Palatal	Velar
Plosive	p b	t d		k g
Fricative		s
Nasal	m	n
Approximant	w	r	j
Flap		r

• Where symbols appear in pairs the one to the left represents a voiceless consonant
• t, and d represent dental/alveolar/post-alveolar consonants, while n is only alveolar

[edit] Vowels

Front	Central	Back
i		ɯ u
e		o
	ɑ