Goliath language
| Una | |
|---|---|
| Goliath | |
| Region | West Papua |
Native speakers | 5,600 (2006)[1] |
|
Trans–New Guinea
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
mtg |
| Glottolog |
unaa1239[2] |
Una, better known as Goliath, is a Papuan language of West Papua.
Dialects are (Western) Una, Bomela, Tanime, Eastern Sela, Kinome. Eastern Una is closer to Ketengban.
It is one of 3 surveyed languages missing both /p/ and /g/, but containing /b/, /t/, /d/ and /k/[3] along with Efik and Ket.
References
- John Louwerse, 1988, The morphosyntax of Una in relation to discourse structure
- ↑ Una at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Una". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ http://wals.info/valuesets/5A-una
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