Wano language
| Wano | |
|---|---|
| Region | Highlands of Irian Jaya |
Native speakers | 1,000 (2011)[1] |
|
Trans–New Guinea
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
wno |
| Glottolog |
wano1243[2] |
Wano is a Papuan language of the Indonesian New Guinea Highlands.
Phonology
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | ʔ | ||||
| Fricative | β | |||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| High | i | u |
| Mid | ɛ | ɔ |
| Close | a | |
As well as the monophthongs described above, Wano also has seven diphthongs: /i̯a/, /ɛi̯/, /ai̯/, /au̯/, /ɔi̯/, /ɔu̯/, and /ui̯/. [3]
Allophony
The voiced plosives /b/ and /d/ are imploded word-initially and intervocalically. [3]
When a nasal occurs before /p/, /p/ becomes a prenasalized voiced plosive [ᵐb]. Similarly, when a nasal occurs before /t/ or /ɡ/, they become, respectively, [ⁿd] and [ᵑɡ].[3]
/p/, /k/, /ɡ/, and /ɡ/'s allophone, [ᵑɡ] become labialized before /w/, with /ɡ/ becoming [ɣʷ]. [3]
The sequences /tj/ and /dj/ become the palatal fricatives /ç ʝ/. [3]
See also
- Duvle-Wano Pidgin
References
- ↑ Wano at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Wano". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Willem Burung, "The Phonology of Wano, SIL International, 2007