| Siane | |
| Speakers: | 29,000 |
| Date: | 2000 census |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | Papuan |
| Iso3: | snp |
| Glotto: | sian1257 |
| Glottorefname: | Siane |
Siane (Siani) is a Papuan language spoken in the eastern highlands of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Siane Rural LLG and other neighboring local-level government areas of Papua New Guinea.
Named dialects are Hakoa, Kolepa, Yamofowe, Komongu, Komoigaleka, Kemanimowe, Ona, Keto, Laiya, Fowe, Olumba, Lambau, Alango, Yandime, Wando. Komongu and Lambau are the literary standards.
Like many Papuan languages Siane has a register tone system.[1]
| Front | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | pronounced as /i/ | pronounced as /u/ | |
| Mid | pronounced as /e/ | pronounced as /o/ | |
| Open | pronounced as /ɑ/ |
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Dorsal | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palatal | Velar | |||||
| Stop | Voiceless | pronounced as /p/ | pronounced as /t/ | pronounced as /k/ | ||
| Voiced prenasalized | pronounced as /m͡b/ | pronounced as /n͡d/ | pronounced as /ŋ͡g/ | |||
| Fricative | pronounced as /f/ | pronounced as /s/ | ||||
| Nasal | pronounced as /m/ | pronounced as /n/ | ||||
| Tap | pronounced as /ɾ/ | |||||
| Semi-vowel | pronounced as /w/ | pronounced as /j/ | ||||