Maia (also spelled Maya) is a Papuan language spoken in the Madang Province of Papua New Guinea, and is a member of the Trans-New Guinea language family. It has a language endangerment status of 6a, which means that it is a vigorous and sustainable language spoken by all generations. According to a 2000 census, there are approximately 4,500 living speakers of the language, who are split between twenty-two villages in the Almani district of the Bogia sub-district. There are variations in the Maia spoken between villages, but they can be generally categorized into two primary dialects. Of these two dialects, the Main Dialect accounts for approximately three-fourths of speakers and the Southern Dialect accounts for the remaining one-fourth. Variations of the Main Dialect tend to be predictable with only minor variations in pronunciation. The information presented in this article is based on the Wagedav dialect, a sub-dialect of the Main Dialect spoken in the Wagedav village. Other names for the language are Banar, Pila, Saki, Suaro, Turutap, and Yakiba. Phonology The phonemic inventory of Maia is fairly small, as is typical of languages from Papua New Guinea. In some cases, vowels and consonants are modified or deleted across morphemes in a word. These morphophonemic rules are detailed in this section. Consonants The following table details these consonant phonemes and allophones for each, if any. The voiced labiovelar approximant /w/ is the sole multi-place consonant in Maia. Vowels Maia contains the five basic vowel phonemes in the chart below: Syllable Structure Possible syllable structures in Maia are illustrated in the chart below. Onsets in Maia can end with a vowel, while codas can end in either a vowel or consonant. Morphophonemic Rules Vowel Deletion There are two instantiations of this rule. The first instance applies to adjacent vowels in a verb: when two vowels are adjacent to each other at the junction of two morphemes within a verb, the first vowel is deleted. For example, 'he is eating' is not nimɛ - a, as the 'ɛ' is deleted to give nima (p. 11). The second instance is more general: when there are two identical vowels adjacent to each other at the junction of two morphemes within any word, one is deleted. For example, 'he worked' is not 'malip-a-a' , as one 'a' is deleted to give malipa (p. 11). Vowel Harmony In words with two verb suffixes, the vowel in the