Gadsup language
Appearance
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Gadsup | |
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Native to | Papua New Guinea |
Region | Eastern Highlands Province |
Ethnicity | Gadsup |
Native speakers | (25,000 cited 1996 – 2000 census)[1] |
Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | gaj – inclusive codeIndividual code: ont – Ontenu village |
Glottolog | gads1258 |
Gadsup is a Kainantu language spoken by the people of the same name in Papua New Guinea.
Phonology
[edit]Consonants
[edit]Bilabial | Alveolar | Velar | Glottal | |
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Group 1 | ɸ, β | s, ɾ | x | |
Group 2 | m | n | j | ʔ |
- /ɸ, β, s, ɾ, x/ become plosives [p, b, t, d, k] when preceded by /N, ʔ/, but initially and medially they are [/ɸ, β, s, ɾ, x, ɾ].[3]
Bilabial | Alveolar | Velar | Glottal | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Group 1 | p | t, d | k | |
Group 2 | m, β | n | j | ʔ |
The phonology of Akuna Gadsup is similar to Ontena Gadsup, except voiceless plosives don't lenite initially, but they do medially.[3]
Vowels
[edit][4] | Front | Central | Back |
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High | i | u | |
Mid | e | ɐ | o |
Low | a |
/ɐ/ can also be heard as [ʌ̈].[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Gadsup at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
Ontenu village at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) - ^ Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices
- ^ a b c d Ulfsbjorninn, Shanti; Lahrouchi, Mohamed (2016). "The typology of the distribution of Edge: The propensity for bipositionality". Papers in Historical Phonology. 1: 109. doi:10.2218/pihph.1.2016.1696.
- ^ a b "Organised Phonology Data: Gadsup (Ontena dialect) Language [GAJ], Eastern Highlands Province" (PDF). www.sil.org. 2004-08-23. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-03-08.
- ^ Frantz, Chester I.; Frantz, Marjorie E. (1971) [1966]. "Gadsup phoneme and toneme units". Papers in New Guinea Linguistics No. 5. Canberra: Australian National University. doi:10.15144/PL-A7.1. ISBN 0-85883-012-4.
External links
[edit]- Paradisec open access vocabulary and phrases in Gadsup
- Paradisec open access audio recordings in Gadsup