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Austronesian language spoken in Papua New Guinea
Mouk-Aria is an Austronesian language spoken by about 600 individuals along coastal West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea on the island of New Britain.
Phonology
Labial | Alveolar | Dorsal | |
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Plosive | p b | t d | k g |
Fricative | s | χ | |
Nasal | m | n | ŋ |
Approximant | l |
- The nasal consonants /m n ŋ/ can appear as the syllabic nasals [m̩ n̩ ŋ̩] word-initially.
- The nasal consonants /m n ŋ/ sometimes appear as prenasalised voiced stops [mb nd ŋg] before /χ/.
- The voiced stops /b d g/ frequently manifest as fricatives [β ɹ ɣ] after vowels.
- /χ/ is voiced [ʁ] between voiced segments.
- Sonorants /l m n ŋ/ are voiceless [l̥ m̥ n̥ ŋ̊] in clusters after voiceless stops.
Front | Central | Back | |
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High | i | u | |
Mid | e | o | |
Low | a |
- /i e/ manifest as [ɯ ɤ] before /χ/.
References
- ^ Mouk-Aria at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ a b Thurston, William R. (1996). Ross, Malcolm D. (ed.). "The Bibling Languages of Northwestern New Britain". Studies in the Languages of New Britain and New Ireland 1: Austronesian Languages of the North New Guinea Cluster in Northwestern New Britain. Pacific Linguistics: Series C. 135. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University: 249–392.
External links
- EE-TAOW! The Mouk Story (Part 1) - New Tribes Mission 1999, featuring several Mouk speakers.
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