Golin language
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Golin" redirects here. For other uses, see Golin (disambiguation).
| Golin | |
|---|---|
| Region | Gumine District, Simbu Province |
Native speakers | unknown (51,000 cited 1981)[1] |
|
Trans–New Guinea
| |
| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | gvf |
Golin (also Gollum, Gumine) is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea.
Phonology
Vowels
| 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.
Consonant
| 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/.
Tone
Golin is a tonal language, distinguishing high, mid, and low tone.
References
- ↑ Golin reference at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
- Bunn, Gordon; Bunn, Ruth (1970). "Golin phonology". Pacific Linguistics A 23: 1–7.
- Bunn, Gordon (1974). "Golin grammar". Working Papers in New Guinea Linguistics 5.
- Evans, Nicholas; et al. (2005). Materials on Golin: Grammar, texts and dictionary. Parkville: The Dept. Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, The University of Melbourne.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.