Wogamusin_language
Wogamusin language
Sepik language spoken in Papua New Guinea
Wogamusin is a Papuan language found in four villages in the Ambunti District of East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. It was spoken by about 700 people in 1998.[2]
| Wogamusin | |
|---|---|
| Region | Ambunti District, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea (4 villages) |
Native speakers | (700 cited 1998)[1] |
Sepik
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | wog |
| Glottolog | woga1249 |
| ELP | Wogamusin |
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In non-final positions, /u/ /o/, /i/, and /e/ are [ʊ] [ɔ], [ɪ], and [ɛ], respectively. [ə] appears only in unstressed syllables; when it is followed by /w/ it is rounded: [ɵu̯].[3]
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
| Plosive | Voiceless | p | t | k | ||
| Voiced | b | d | ɡ | |||
| Voiced prenasalized | ᵐb | ⁿd | ᵑɡ | |||
| Fricative | s | h | ||||
| Flap | ɺ | |||||
| Semivowel | j | w | ||||
Between vowels, /b/ and /ɡ/ lenite to the fricatives [β] and [ɣ], respectively. /s/ is realized as an affricate, [ts], word-initially. /h/ is velar, [x], after /a/ and /o/. Word-finally, voiceless stops are usually unreleased.[3]
Phonotactics
The consonant /ŋ/ only occurs finally. Bilabial and velar consonants may be followed by /w/ when initial, but otherwise consonant clusters only occur over syllable boundaries, with the exception of the unusual word /məmt/ ('snake').[4]
Wogamusin pronouns:[5]: 279
| sg | du | pl | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nay | nond | non |
| 2 | ni | noh | nom |
| 3m | ye | yoh | yor |
| 3f | yo |
- Paradisec has an open access collection from Theodore Schwartz that includes Wogamusin language materials
- Wogamusin at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- Ethnologue.
- Laycock (1965:114)
- Laycock (1965:114)
- Foley, William A. (2018). "The Languages of the Sepik-Ramu Basin and Environs". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 197–432. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.
- Laycock, D.C. (1965), "Three Upper Sepik phonologies", Oceanic Linguistics, 4 (1/2): 113–118, doi:10.2307/3622917