Gimi language
Not to be confused with Gimi language (West New Britain).
| Gimi | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Eastern Highlands Province |
Native speakers | unknown (22,500 cited 1981)[1] |
| Dialects |
Gouno
|
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
gim |
| Glottolog |
gimi1243[2] |
Gimi (Labogai) is a Papuan language spoken in Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea.
Gimi has voiceless and voiced glottal consonants where related languages have /k/ and /ɡ/. The voiceless glottal is simply a glottal stop [ʔ]. The voiced consonant behaves phonologically like a glottal stop, but does not have full closure. Phonetically it is a creaky-voiced glottal approximant [ʔ̞].[3]
References
- ↑ Gimi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Gimi (Eastern Highlands)". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Ladefoged, Peter; Maddieson, Ian (1996). The Sounds of the World's Languages. Oxford: Blackwell. p. 77–78. ISBN 0-631-19814-8.
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