Qaqet
Qaqet (Kakat, Makakat, Maqaqet), or Baining, is a Papuan language spoken in East New Britain Province on the island of New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
| Qaqet | |
|---|---|
| Baining | |
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | New Britain |
Native speakers | (6,400 cited 1988)[1] |
Baining
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | byx |
| Glottolog | qaqe1238[2] |
| Coordinates: 4.456156°S 151.784413°E | |
Locations
Qaqet is spoken in the villages of:[3]
- Raunsepna (4.456156°S 151.784413°E) in Inland Baining Rural LLG
- Kamanakam (4.284842°S 151.839181°E) in Inland Baining Rural LLG
- Walmetki (4.370491°S 151.554196°E) in Lassul Baining Rural LLG
Raunsepna located is in the mountainous interior, while the other two villages are located near the coast.
Phonology
According to Parker and Parker (1974), Qaqet has the following consonantal inventory:
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Velar | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | p b | t d | k ɡ |
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ |
| Fricative | s | ɣ | |
| Rhotic | r | ||
| Lateral | l | ||
| Approximant | w |
It has a vowel inventory of /i u ɛ a o/.
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gollark: `no method named `include_checksum` found for mutable reference `&mut &mut &mut W` in the current scope`How fun.
References
- Qaqet at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Qaqet". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Marley, Alexandra. 2013. Language Use amongst the Qaqet Baining: A sociolinguistic study of language choices in an ethnolinguistic minority in Papua New Guinea. MA thesis, LaTrobe University.
External links
- ELAR archive of Language socialisation and the transmission of Qaqet Baining (Papua New Guinea)
- Materials on Qaqet are included in the open access Arthur Capell collection (AC2) and the Meinrad Scheller's field recordings (MS2) held by Paradisec.
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