Löyöp language
Löyöp | |
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Native to | Vanuatu |
Region | Ureparapara |
Native speakers | 240 (2010)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
urr |
Glottolog |
leha1244 [2] |
Löyöp [løjøp] (also known as Lehalurup) is a language spoken on the east coast of Ureparapara Island in the Banks Islands of Vanuatu.[1] It is distinct from Lehali, the language spoken on the west coast of the same island.
Phonology
Löyöp has 11 phonemic vowels. These are ten short monophthongs /i ɪ ɛ æ a œ ø y ɔ ʊ/, and one diphthong /i͡ɛ/.[3]
Front | Back | ||
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plain | round | ||
Close | i | y | |
Near-close | ɪ | ø | ʊ |
Open-mid | ɛ | œ | ɔ |
Near-open | æ | ||
Open | a |
References
- 1 2 List of Banks islands languages.
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Lehalurup". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ François (2011:194)
Bibliography
- François, Alexandre (2011), "Social ecology and language history in the northern Vanuatu linkage: A tale of divergence and convergence", Journal of Historical Linguistics 1 (2): 175–246, doi:10.1075/jhl.1.2.03fra.
External links
- Audio recordings in Löyöp language (homepage of CNRS–LACITO)
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