Amele language
Amele (Amele: Sona) is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea. Dialects are Huar, Jagahala and Haija.
| Amele | |
|---|---|
| Sona | |
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Madang Province |
Native speakers | (5,300 cited 1987)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | aey |
| Glottolog | amel1241[2] |
Amele is notable for having 32 possessive classes.[3]
Phonology
Amele has only 5 vowels: /i, ɛ, æ, u, ɔ/.[4]
| Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | voiceless | t | k | ʔ | |||
| voiced | b | d | g | ||||
| Fricative | f | s | ʝ | h | |||
| Nasal | m | n | |||||
| Approximant | l | ||||||
Grammar
Amele has seven tense-aspect categories, including four past tenses:[5]
- past habitual
- remote past
- yesterday’s past
- today’s past
- plus present
- future
- relative future
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References
- Amele at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Amele". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- http://wals.info/chapter/59
- Roberts, John R. (1987). Amele. London: Croom Helm. ISBN 0709942540. OCLC 14132880.
- Pawley, Andrew; Hammarström, Harald (2018). "The Trans New Guinea family". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 21–196. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.
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