Oksapmin language
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Oksapmin | ||
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Spoken in: | Telefomin District, Sandaun, Papua New Guinea | |
Total speakers: | 8,000 (1991) | |
Language family: | Trans-New Guinea Oksapmin |
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Writing system: | Latin alphabet | |
Language codes | ||
ISO 639-1: | none | |
ISO 639-2: | paa | |
ISO 639-3: | opm | |
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. |
Oksapmin is a Trans-New Guinea language spoken in Telefomin District, Sandaun, Papua New Guinea.
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[edit] Phonology
[edit] Vowels
There are seven monophthongs, /i e ə a o ʊ u/, and one diphthong, /ai/.
[edit] Consonants
Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | |||
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Unrounded | Rounded | |||||
Stop | Voiceless | p | t | k | kʷ | |
Voiced | b | d | ɡ | ɡʷ | ||
Fricative | s | x | xʷ | |||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | ŋʷ | ||
Flap | ɾ | |||||
Approximant | j | w |
[edit] Tone
Oksapmin contrasts two tones: high and low.