Wogamusin | |
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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 |
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]
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | i | u | |
Mid | e | ə | o |
Open | a |
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 | ||
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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]
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 | |
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1 | nay | nond | non |
2 | ni | noh | nom |
3m | ye | yoh | yor |
3f | yo |