Wogamusin language

Wogamusin
Region Ambunti District, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea
Native speakers
 700 (1998)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 wog
Glottolog woga1249[2]

Wogamusin is a Papuan language found in four villages in the Ambunti District of East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. It was spoken by about 700 people in 1998.[3]

Phonology

Vowels[4]
Front Central Back
Close i u
Mid e ə o
Open a

In non-final positions, /u/ /o/, /i/, and /e/ are [ʊ] [ɔ], [ɪ], and [ɛ], respectively. [ə] appears only in unstressed syllables; when it is followed by /w/ it is rounded: [ɵu̯].[4]

Consonants[4]
Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m n ŋ
Plosive Voiceless p t k
Voiced b d a
Voiced prenasalized ᵐb ⁿd ᵑɡ
Fricative s h
Flap ɺ
Approximant j w

Between vowels, /b/ and /ɡ/ lenite to the fricatives [β] and [ɣ], respectively. /s/ is realized as an affricate, [ts], word-initially. /h/ is velar, [x], after /ɡ/ and /o/. Word-finally, voiceless stops are usually unreleased.[4]

Phonotactics

The consonant /ŋ/ only occurs finally. Bilabial and velar consonants may be followed by /w/ when initial, but otherwise consonant clusters only occur over syllable boundaries, with the exception of the unusual word /məmt/ ('snake').[5]

Notes

  1. ↑ Wogamusin at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Wogamusin". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ↑ Ethnologue.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Laycock (1965:114)
  5. ↑ Laycock (1965:114)

References

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