Mussau-Emira language

Mussau-Emira
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Islands of Mussau and Emira (New Ireland Province)
Native speakers	5,000 (2003)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic St. Matthias Mussau-Emira
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog	muss1246
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The Mussau-Emira language is spoken on the islands of Mussau and Emirau in the St. Matthias Islands in the Bismarck Archipelago.

Mussau-Emira distinguishes the following consonants.

In most words the primary stress falls on the penultimate vowel and secondary stresses fall on every second syllable preceding that. This is true of suffixed forms as well, as in níma 'hand', nimá-gi 'my hand'; níu 'coconut', niyúna 'its coconut'.

Prefixes mark the subjects of each verb:

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