Wano language
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Wano | |
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Region | Highlands of Irian Jaya |
Native speakers | 1,000 (2011)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | wno |
Glottolog | wano1243 |
ELP | Wano |
Wano is a Papuan language of the Indonesian New Guinea Highlands.
Phonology[edit]
Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
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Nasal | m | n | |||
Plosive | p b | t d | k | ʔ | |
Fricative | β | ||||
Approximant | j | w |
Front | Back | |
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High | i | u |
Mid | ɛ | ɔ |
Close | a |
As well as the monophthongs described above, Wano also has seven diphthongs: /i̯a/, /ɛi̯/, /ai̯/, /au̯/, /ɔi̯/, /ɔu̯/, and /ui̯/.[2]
Allophony[edit]
The voiced plosives /b/ and /d/ are imploded word-initially and intervocalically.[2]
When a nasal occurs before /p/, /p/ becomes a prenasalized voiced plosive [ᵐb]. Similarly, when a nasal occurs before /t/ or /k/, they become, respectively, [ⁿd] and [ᵑɡ].[2]
/p/, /k/, /ɡ/, and /ɡ/'s allophone, [ᵑɡ] become labialized before /w/, with /ɡ/ becoming [ɣʷ].[2]
The sequences /tj/ and /dj/ become the palatal fricatives /ç ʝ/.[2]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- Burung, Willem (2016). A grammar of Wano (PhD thesis). University of Oxford.