Awa language (Papua New Guinea)
Appearance
Awa | |
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Native to | Papua New Guinea |
Region | Eastern Highlands Province |
Native speakers | 2,100 (2003)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | awb |
Glottolog | awap1236 |
Awa is a Kainantu language of Papua New Guinea.
Phonology
[edit]Consonants
[edit]Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
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Nasal | m | n | ||||||||
Stop | p | b | t | k | g | ʔ | ||||
Affricate | t̪s | |||||||||
Approximant | j | w | ||||||||
Trill | r |
Vowels
[edit]Front | Central | Back | |
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High | i | u | |
Mid | e | ə | o |
Low | æ | ɑ |
Allophones
[edit]- /p/, /t/, and /k/ are [β], [ɾ], and [ɣ] intervocalically after mid and back vowels
- /r/ is [d] following the vowel [i], and [r] elsewhere
- /t̪s/ is voiced [d̪z] after a nasal consonant
- /j/ may be pronounced [z]
Phonotactics
[edit]- Syllables follow the structure (C)V(C)
- The phonemes /b/, /g/, /r/, and /j/ do not occur word initially
- /ʔ/ is the only consonant occurring word finally
Tone
[edit]- Awa has the high, low, rising, and falling tonemes
References
[edit]- ^ Awa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)