Zia language

Zia
Pronunciation[d̪ia]
Native toPapua New Guinea
Regionlower Waria Valley, Morobe Province
EthnicityZia
Native speakers
(4,500 cited 2000)
Dialects
  • Zia
  • Mawae
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3zia
Glottologziaa1250

Zia is a Papuan language spoken in the Lower Waria Valley in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. It is part of the Binandere subgroup of the Trans–New Guinea phylum of languages (Ross, 2005).