Tigak language

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Tigak
RegionNew Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea
Native speakers
(6,000 cited 1991)Category:Language articles with old Ethnologue 18 speaker data[1]
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3tgc
Glottologtiga1245
Languages of the New Ireland languages group

Tigak (or Omo) is an Austronesian language spoken by about 6,000 people (in 1991)[2] in the Kavieng District of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea.

The Tigak language area includes the provincial capital, Kavieng.

Phonology

Phoneme inventory of the Tigak language:

Consonant sounds
Labial Alveolar Velar
Nasal m n ŋ
Plosive voiceless p t k
voiced b g
Rhotic r
Fricative voiceless β s
lateral ɮ

/r/Category:Pages with plain IPA can also be realized as [ɾ] allophonically. Both /k, ɡ/Category:Pages with plain IPA are back-released as [k̠, ɡ̠]Category:Pages with plain IPA.

Vowel sounds
Front Central Back
High i u
Mid e ɔ
Low a
Phoneme Allophones
/i/Category:Pages with plain IPA [i], [ɪ], [y]
/e/Category:Pages with plain IPA [e], [ɛ]
/a/Category:Pages with plain IPA [ʌ], [a]

Two vowels /i u/Category:Pages with plain IPA in word-initial form can also be released as consonantal allophones [w j]Category:Pages with plain IPA.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Tigak at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)Category:Pages containing links to subscription-only contentCategory:Language articles citing Ethnologue 18
  2. ↑ Gordon, Raymond G. Jr., ed. (2005). "Tigak". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (fifteenth ed.). Dallas: SIL. {{cite book}}: External link in |chapter= (help)Category:CS1 errors: external links
  3. ↑ Beaumont, Clive H. (1974). The Tigak Language of New Ireland. Australian National University.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)Category:CS1 maint: location missing publisher
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