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 toPapua New Guinea
RegionNew Britain
Native speakers
(6,400 cited 1988)[1]
Baining
  • Qaqet
Language codes
ISO 639-3byx
Glottologqaqe1238[2]
Coordinates: 4.456156°S 151.784413°E / -4.456156; 151.784413 (Raunsepna)

Locations

Qaqet is spoken in the villages of:[3]

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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References
  1. Qaqet at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Qaqet". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. 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.
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