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Austronesian language spoken in Papua New Guinea
Not to be confused with Omo languages.
Tigak (or Omo) is an Austronesian language spoken by about 6,000 people (in 1991)[2] in the Kavieng District of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea.
The Tigak language area includes the provincial capital, Kavieng.
Phonology
Phoneme inventory of the Tigak language:
Labial | Alveolar | Velar | ||
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Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |
Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k |
voiced | b | g | ||
Rhotic | r | |||
Fricative | voiceless | β | s | |
lateral | ɮ |
/r/ can also be realized as [ɾ] allophonically. Both /k, ɡ/ are back-released as [k̠, ɡ̠].
Front | Central | Back | |
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High | i | u | |
Mid | e | ɔ | |
Low | a |
Phoneme | Allophones |
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/i/ | [i], [ɪ], [y] |
/e/ | [e], [ɛ] |
/a/ | [ʌ], [a] |
Two vowels /i u/ in word-initial form can also be released as consonantal allophones [w j].[3]
External links
References
- ^ Tigak at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Gordon, Raymond G. Jr., ed. (2005). "Tigak". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (fifteenth ed.). Dallas: SIL.
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- ^ Beaumont, Clive H. (1974). The Tigak Language of New Ireland. Australian National University.
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