Qaqet
| Qaqet | |
|---|---|
| Baining | |
| Region | New Britain |
Native speakers | (6,400 cited 1988)[1] |
|
Baining
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
byx |
| Glottolog |
qaqe1238[2] |
Qaqet (Kakat, Makakat, Maqaqet), or Baining, is a Papuan language spoken in East New Britain Province on the island of New Britain, Papua New Guinea.[3]
According to Parker and Parker (1974), Qaqet has the following consonantal inventory:
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Velar | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | p ᵐb | t ⁿd | k ᵑɡ |
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ |
| Fricative | s | ɣ | |
| Tap | ɾ | ||
| Approximant | w | ||
| Lateral Approximant | l |
It also has a vowel inventory of /i u ɛ a o/ and three diphthongs, /ai au ɛi/.
References
- ↑ Qaqet at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Qaqet". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database. 2014. Qaqet sound inventory (UPSID). In: Moran, Steven & McCloy, Daniel & Wright, Richard (eds.) PHOIBLE Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at http://phoible.org/inventories/view/267,%5B%5D Accessed on 2014-09-20.)
External links
- ELAR archive of Language socialisation and the transmission of Qaqet Baining (Papua New Guinea)
- Materials on Qaqet are included in the open access Arthur Capell collection (AC2) and the Meinrad Scheller's field recordings (MS2) held by Paradisec.
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