Nengone language
Nengone is a language of the Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia.
Nengone | |
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Native to | New Caledonia |
Region | Maré Island |
Native speakers | 8,700 (2009 census)[1] |
Austronesian
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | nen |
Glottolog | neng1238 [2] |
Phonology
The phonological inventory of consonants is untypically large for an Oceanic language. Many sounds which are allophones in other sub-families are distinct sounds in the Nengone language:[3]
Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Plosive | voiceless | p | t | ʈ | k | ʔ | ||
voiced | b | d | ɖ | ɡ | ||||
Affricate | voiceless | t͡ʃ | ||||||
voiced | d͡ʒ | |||||||
Fricative | voiceless | (f) | θ | s | ʃ | (x) | h | |
voiced | z | ɣ | ||||||
Nasal | voiceless | m̥ | n̥ | ŋ̊ | ||||
voiced | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||
Rhotic | r | |||||||
Approximant | voiceless | w̥ | ||||||
voiced | w | ɭ | j |
Phonemes in parentheses only occur in words borrowed from other languages.[3]
Front | Back | |
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High | i | u |
Mid | e | o |
ɛ | ɔ | |
Low | a |
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References
- Nengone at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Nengone". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Tryon, Darrell T. 1967. Nengone Grammar
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