| Golin | ||||
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| Spoken in | Gumine District, Simbu Province | |||
| Native speakers | unknown (51,100 cited 1981) | |||
| Language family | ||||
| Writing system | Latin | |||
| Language codes | ||||
| ISO 639-3 | gvf | |||
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Golin (also Gollum, Gumine) is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea.
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| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| High | ɪ ɪː | ʊ ʊː |
| Mid | ɛ ɛː | ɔ ɔː |
| Low | ɑ ɑː |
Diphthongs that occur are /ɑi ɑu ɔi ui/. The consonants /l n/ can also be syllabic.
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plain | Labialized | Plain | Labialized | ||||
| Nasals | m | n | |||||
| Plosives | voiceless | p | t | k | |||
| voiced | b | (bʷ) | d | ɡ | (ɡʷ) | ||
| Sibilant | s~ʃ | ||||||
| Lateral | l~ɬ | ||||||
| Trill | r | ||||||
| Semivowels | j | w | |||||
/bʷ ɡʷ/ are treated as single consonants by Bunn & Bunn (1970), but as combinations of /b/ + /w/, /ɡ/ + /w/ by Evans et al. (2005).
Two consonants appear to allow free variation in their realisations: [s] varies with [ʃ], and [l] with [ɬ].
/n/ assimilates to [ŋ] before /k/ and /ɡ/.
Golin is a tonal language, distinguishing high, mid, and low tone.