Wano language
| Wano | |
|---|---|
| Region | Highlands of Irian Jaya |
Native speakers | 1,000 (2011)[1] |
| 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 /a/, they become, respectively, [ⁿd] and [ᵑɡ].[3]
/p/, /k/, /a/, and /a/'s allophone, [ᵑɡ] become labialized before /w/, with /a/ becoming [ɣʷ].[3]
The sequences /tj/ and /dj/ become the palatal fricatives /ç ʝ/.[3]
See also
References
- ↑ Wano at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Wano". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Willem Burung, "The Phonology of Wano, SIL International, 2007
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