Amanab language
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Amanab | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | Amanab District, Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea | |
| Total speakers: | 4,419 | |
| Language family: | Border Waris Amanab |
|
| Writing system: | Latin alphabet | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | paa | |
| ISO 639-3: | amn | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Amanab is a Papuan language spoken by 4,419 people (as of 2003) in Amanab District, Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea.
Contents |
[edit] Phonology
[edit] Vowels
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| High | i | u |
| Mid | ɛ | ɔ |
| Low | ɑ | |
[edit] Consonants
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | Voiceless | p | t | k | ||
| Prenasalized | mb | nd | ŋɡ | |||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||
| Fricative | Voiceless | ɸ | s | h | ||
| Voiced | ɣ | |||||
| Flap/Lateral | ɾ~l | |||||
| Approximant | w | j | ||||
[edit] References
- Minch, Andrew (1992). "Amanab grammar essentials", in John R. Roberts: Namia and Amanab grammar essentials, Data Papers on Papua New Guinea Languages, 39, Ukarumpa: Summer Institute of Linguistics, 99–173.
[edit] External links
 |
This Papuan languages-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
