Qaqet

Qaqet
Baining
Region New Britain
Native speakers
unknown (6,400 cited 1988)[1]
Baining
  • Qaqet
Language codes
ISO 639-3 byx
Glottolog qaqe1238[2]

Qaqet (Kakat, Makakat, Maqaqet), or Baining, is a Papuan language spoken in East New Britain Province on the island of New Britain, Papua New Guinea.[3]

According to Parker and Parker (1974), Qaqet has the following consonantal inventory:

Bilabial Alveolar Velar
Stop p ᵐb t ⁿd k ᵑɡ
Nasal m n ŋ
Fricative s ɣ
Tap ɾ
Approximant w
Lateral Approximant l

It also has a vowel inventory of /i u ɛ a o/ and three diphthongs, /ai au ɛi/.

References

  1. Qaqet at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Qaqet". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database. 2014. Qaqet sound inventory (UPSID). In: Moran, Steven & McCloy, Daniel & Wright, Richard (eds.) PHOIBLE Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at http://phoible.org/inventories/view/267, Accessed on 2014-09-20.)


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