Nobonob language
Nobonob (Nobanob, Nobnob), also known as Butelkud-Guntabak or Garuh (cf. closely related Garus), is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea. The language is expanding slightly. Ari (Ati, A’i) is a dialect.
| Nobonob | |
|---|---|
| Garuh | |
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Madang Province |
Native speakers | 5,000 (2005 census)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | gaw |
| Glottolog | nobo1238[2] |
Phonology
Vowels (orthographic)
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i ii | u uu | |
| Mid | e ee | o oo | |
| Open | a aa |
Consonants (orthographic)
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Voiceless stop | p p̱ | t ṯ | k ḵ | ||
| Voiced stop/implosive | b q | d ḏ | g g̱ | ||
| Nasal | m | n | |||
| Fricative | (s) | h | |||
| Approximant | w | l | y |
gollark: Then... I'll complain since the T&C says nothing about that?
gollark: Well, not my fault.
gollark: I plan to just run the checks every 5 minutes.
gollark: No.
gollark: Or within a few minutes of being sick, since querying DC to update *every single egg/hatchling* is sloooow.
External links
References
- Nobonob at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Nobonob". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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