Obokuitai language
| Obokuitai | |
|---|---|
| Aliki | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | New Guinea |
Native speakers | 120 (2000)[1] |
|
Lakes Plain
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
afz |
| Glottolog |
obok1239[2] |
Obokuitai (Obogwitai) is a Lakes Plain language of Papua, Indonesia. It is named after Obogwi village.
Obokuitai, Sikaritai, and Eritai constitute a dialect cluster.
Phonology
The following discussion is based on Jenison & Jenison (1991).[3]
Unusual phonological features of Obokuitai and other Lakes Plain languages are the complete lack of nasals, even allophones, and a series of extra high or fricativized vowels that developed from loss of a following stop consonant.[4]
Consonants
| Labial | Coronal | Velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | b | t d | k | |
| Fricative | s | h |
The small consonant inventory is typical of Lakes Plain languages.
Vowels
Obokuitai has five vowels.
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | u | |
| Mid | ɛ | o | |
| Low | a |
Tone
Like the other Lakes Plain languages, Obokuitai is tonal. L, H, and HL pitch contours occur on monosyllabic words. A phonological analysis of the tone system remains to be completed.
References
- ↑ Obokuitai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Obokuitai". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Jenison, Scott; Jenison, Priscilla (1991). "Obokuitai phonology". Workpapers in Indonesian languages and cultures. 9: 69–90.
- ↑ Clouse, Duane (1997). "Toward a reconstruction and reclassification of the Lakes Plain languages of Irian Jaya". Papers in Papuan Linguistics. 2: 133–236.
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