Dorig language
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| Dorig | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Vanuatu |
| Region | Gaua |
Native speakers | 300 (2012)[1] |
|
Austronesian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | wwo |
Dorig (sometimes called Wetamut) is an Oceanic language spoken on Gaua island in Vanuatu.
Its 300 speakers live mostly in the village of Dorig (IPA: [ⁿdʊˈriɰ]), on the south coast of Gaua. Smaller speaker communities can be found in the villages of Qteon (east coast) and Qtevut (west coast).
Dorig's immediate neighbours are Koro and Mwerlap.[2]
Phonology
Dorig has 8 phonemic vowels. These include 7 short monophthongs /i ɪ ɛ a ɔ ʊ u/ and one long vowel /aː/.[3]
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u |
| Near-close | ɪ | ʊ |
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ |
| Open | a ∙ aː | |
The phonotactic template for a syllable in Dorig is: /CCVC/ — e.g. /rk͡pʷa/ ‘woman’;/ŋ͡mʷsar/ ‘poor’; /wrɪt/ ‘octopus’. Remarkably, the consonant clusters of these /CCVC/ syllables are not constrained by the Sonority Sequencing Principle.[4]
References
- ↑ François (2012): 88).
- ↑ List of Banks islands languages.
- ↑ François (2005:445)
- ↑ François (2010:407)
Bibliography
- François, Alexandre (2005), "Unraveling the history of the vowels of seventeen northern Vanuatu languages", Oceanic Linguistics 44 (2): 443–504
- François, Alexandre (2010), "Phonotactics and the prestopped velar lateral of Hiw: Resolving the ambiguity of a complex segment", Phonology 27 (3): 393–434
- François, Alexandre (2012), "The dynamics of linguistic diversity: Egalitarian multilingualism and power imbalance among northern Vanuatu languages", International Journal of the Sociology of Language 214: 85–110, doi:10.1515/ijsl-2012-0022
External links
- Linguistic map of north Vanuatu, showing range of Dorig on Gaua.
- A story in Dorig, with audio recording and translation.
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