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Sudest language
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| Sudest | |
|---|---|
| Tagula | |
| Region | Tagula Island, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea |
Native speakers | (2,000 cited 1987)[1] |
Austronesian
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | tgo |
| Glottolog | sude1239 |
Sudest, also known as Tagula, is an Oceanic language of Papua New Guinea.
Name
[edit]Phonology
[edit]Consonants
[edit]| Labial | Dental/ Alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | lab. | plain | lab. | ||||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | pʷ | t | k | kʷ | |
| voiced | b | bʷ | d | ɟ | ɡ | ɡʷ | |
| prenasal | ᵐb | ᵐbʷ | ⁿd | ᶮɟ | ᵑɡ | ᵑɡʷ | |
| Fricative | voiced | β | βʷ | ð | ɣ | ɣʷ | |
| voiceless | s | ||||||
| Nasal | m | mʷ | n | ɲ | ŋ | ŋʷ | |
| Rhotic | r | ||||||
| Lateral | l | ||||||
| Approximant | j | w | |||||
- /ɣ/ is heard as a glottal [h] before /o/ or /u/.
- /ɣʷ/ is heard as [hʷ], in free variation within different dialects.
- /β, βʷ/ are originally bilabial, although many speakers under the influence of English pronounce them as labio-dental [v, vʷ].[2]
Vowels
[edit]| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | |
| Mid | e | ə | o |
| Open | a |
External links
[edit]- Paradisec has two collections of Arthur Cappell's materials (AC1, AC2) and one collection of Malcolm Ross's (MR1) materials that include Sudest-language materials.