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Mubami language
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| Mubami | |
|---|---|
| Tao | |
| Region | Papua New Guinea |
Native speakers | 1,700 (2002)[1] |
Trans–New Guinea
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | tsx |
| Glottolog | muba1238 |
Mubami is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea. It goes by the names Dausame, Tao-Suamato, Tao-Suame, and Ta. The language is used in all age groups and domains of life, including education,[1] and is therefore counted as not presently endangered.[2]
It is spoken in Diwami, Kubeai, Parieme, Paueme, Sogae, Ugu, and Waliho villages on the Guavi and Aramia rivers in Western Province, Papua New Guinea.[1]
A word list of Mubami can be found in Z'graggen (1975)[3]
Phonology
[edit]Consonants
[edit]| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | (ɲ) | |||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | |
| voiced | b | d | ɡ | |||
| Fricative | voiceless | (f) | s | h | ||
| voiced | v | ɣ | ||||
| Rhotic | ɾ | |||||
| Approximant | w | j | ||||
- [f] is mainly heard as a variant of /p/.
- [ɲ] is heard in the sequence /nj/.
Vowels
[edit]| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | |
| Mid | e | o | |
| Open | a |
- /e, o/ can also have realizations of [ɛ, ɔ].[4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Mubami at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Harald Hammarström, 2010: The status of the least documented language families in the world.
- ^ Z'graggen, John A. 1975. Comparative wordlists of the Gulf District and adjacent Areas. In: Richard Loving (ed.), Comparative Wordlists I. 5–116. Ukarumpa: SIL-PNG. (Rearranged version of Franklin ed. 1973: 541–592) with typographical errors.)
- ^ Reesink, Ger P. (1976). Languages of the Aramia River Area. In Papers in New Guinea Linguistics 19: Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. pp. 1–37.
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External links
[edit]- Mubami. New Guinea World.
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