Hamtai language
Hamtai (also called Hamday or Kapau) is the most populous of the Angan languages of Papua New Guinea. It is also known as Kamea, Kapau, and Watut. Dialects are Wenta, Howi, Pmasa’a, Hamtai proper, and Kaintiba.[3] The language was unwritten until 2009.[4]
| Hamtai | |
|---|---|
| Hamday | |
| Kapau | |
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Morobe Province, Gulf Province |
Native speakers | 45,000 (1998)[1] |
Trans–New Guinea
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| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | hmt |
| Glottolog | hamt1247[2] |
Phonology
In Hamtai, there are 14 consonants, 7 vowels, and two tones (rising and falling).
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i /i/ | i /ɨ/ | u /u/ |
| Close-mid | e /e/ |
o /o/ | |
| Open-mid | ä, aa /ʌ/ | ||
| Open | a /a/ |
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m /m/ |
n /n/ |
ng /ŋ/ |
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| Plosive | p /p/ |
t /t/ |
k /k/ |
k̥/q /q/ |
' /ʔ/ | ||
| Approximant | voiced | y /j/ |
w /w/ |
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| unvoiced | wh /w̥/ |
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| Fricative | voiced | v /v/ |
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| unvoiced | f /f/ |
h /h/ | |||||
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References
- Hamtai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Hamtai". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- https://www.ethnologue.com/language/hmt
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-46336355
- Healy, Alan (1981). The Phonological Complexity of Kapau. Ukarumpa: Summer Institute of Linguistics. p. 95.
- Oates, W.; Oates, L. (1968). Kapau pedagogical grammar. Canberra, Australia: The Australian National University. pp. 7–8.
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