Guhu-Samane language
(Redirected from Bia language)
| Guhu-Samane | |
|---|---|
| Region | Papua New Guinea |
Native speakers | 13,000 (2000 census)[1] |
Trans–New Guinea
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| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ghs |
| Glottolog | guhu1244 |
Guhu-Samane, also known as Bia, Mid-Waria, Muri, Paiawa, Tahari, is a divergent Trans–New Guinea language that is related to the Binanderean family in the classification of Malcolm Ross (2005).
The divergence of Guhu-Samane from other Binanderean languages may be due to extensive historical contact with Oceanic languages such as Numbami.[2]
Dialects
[edit]Smallhorn (2011:131) gives the following dialects:
- Kipu (most widely spoken)
- Bapi
- Garaina
- Sekare
- Sinaba
The dialect differences are principally lexical, but two voiced obstruents also show regular variants. The coronal obstruent is realized as /dz/ upriver in Bapi and Garaina, /d/ downriver to Asama, and /j/ farther downriver in Papua. The voiced bilabial is realized as /b/ inland but as /w/ at the coast (Sinaba and Paiawa) (Handman 2015:102).
References
[edit]- ^ Guhu-Samane at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Bradshaw, Joel (2017). Evidence of contact between Binanderean and Oceanic languages. Oceanic Linguistics 56:395–414.
- Handman, Courtney. 2015. Critical Christianity: Translation and denominational conflict in Papua New Guinea. Oakland: University of California Press.
- Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". In Andrew Pawley; Robert Attenborough; Robin Hide; Jack Golson (eds.). Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 15–66. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782.
- Smallhorn, Jacinta Mary. 2011. The Binanderean languages of Papua New Guinea: reconstruction and subgrouping. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
Further reading
[edit]- Ttopaqago, Mumure (2003). "Organised Phonology Data" (PDF).
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