Kire language
Kire (Giri) is a Ramu language of Giri village (4.286778°S 144.724753°E) in Yawar Rural LLG, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea.[3][4]
| Kire | |
|---|---|
| Giri | |
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Madang Province |
Native speakers | 2,400 (2003)[1] |
Ramu
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | geb |
| Glottolog | kire1240[2] |
| Coordinates: 4.286778°S 144.724753°E | |
Phonology
Out of all the Ramu languages, Kire has the most complex consonant phonemic inventory. The Kire consonants are:[5]
p t k pʰ tʰ kʰ ᵐp ⁿt ᵑk b d ɡ ᵐb ⁿd ᵑg f s h v z fʰ sʰ n z m n ŋ r ʋ j
Orthography
Kire orthography:[6]
| Phonemes | ɑ | ɑ̃ | b | β | d | e | ẽ | f | g | h | i | ĩ | ɨ | ɨ̃ | k | kʰ | m | ᵐb | ᵐp | n |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lowercase letters | a | ä | b | b̄ | d | e | ë | f | g | h | i | ï | ɨ | ɨ̈ | k | kh | m | mb | mp | n |
| Phonemes | ⁿd | ⁿt | ŋ | ᵑg | ᵑk | o | õ | p | pʰ | r | s | s̪ | t | tʰ | u | ũ | v | w | z | |
| Lowercase letters | nd | nt | ŋ | ŋg | ŋk | o | ö | p | ph | r | s | š | t | th | u | ü | v | w | z |
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References
- Kire at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kire". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Papua New Guinea languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
- United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
- Foley, William A. (2018). "The Languages of the Sepik-Ramu Basin and Environs". 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. 197–432. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.
- "Organised Phonology Data Kire". SIL.
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