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Selected languages: | Alamblak |
UPSID number: | 8634 |
Alternate name(s): | N/A |
Classification: | Papuan, Sepik-Ramu |
The languages has | 25 segments |
Frequency index: | N/A |
Sounds: | [pʰ] [b] [tʰ] [d] [kʰ] [ɡ] [s] [ʃ] [ɸ] [x] [tʃ] [dʒ] [*ɾ] [w] [j] [m] [n] [n̠] [i] [ɨ] [u] [e̞] [ə] [o̞] [ä] |
Comments: | Alamblak is spoken along the Wagupmeri and Karawari rivers, E. Sepik province, Papua New Guinea. Palato-alveolar consonants often arise from blending of an alveolar + preceding or following /j/. Nonsibilant fricatives are voiced between voiced segments, except when a nasal precedes. An analysis of the vowel system as containing only 3 central vowels, with front and back variants conditioned by adjacent approximants /j/, /w/ is discussed by Bruce (1984). However there are several problems with this analysis, e.g. [i] from abstract high central vowel + /j/ would be expected to palatalize a following /t/ but doesn't. |
Sources: | Bruce, Les. 1984. The Alamblak Language of Papua New Guinea (East Sepik). Pacific Linguistics, series C no. 81. Australian National University, Canberra. |