Sam language
Sam, or Songum, is a Madang language spoken in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea.
Sam | |
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Songum | |
Native to | Papua New Guinea |
Region | Madang Province |
Native speakers | 780 (2000 census)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | snx |
Glottolog | samm1244 [2] |
It is spoken in Songum (5.50779°S 145.851042°E), Buan, and Wongbe villages in Astrolabe Bay Rural LLG.[3][4]
'Sam' is the word for 'language'. 'Songum' is a village name.
Phonology
Consonants
Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
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Plosive | p b | t d | k ɡ | ʔ <x> | |
Nasal | m | n | ɲ <ɳ> | ŋ | |
Trill | r <rr> | ||||
Tap/flap | ɾ <r> | ||||
Fricative | s | h | |||
Approximant | j <y> | ||||
Lateral approx. | l |
Vowels
Front | Central | Back | |
---|---|---|---|
Close | i | u | |
Mid | e | o | |
Open | a |
gollark: Odd that kilogram is one of the base units and not gram, though.
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gollark: It's one of the SI base units, even.
gollark: I think it is.
gollark: I mean, Felsius is okay too.
References
- Sam at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Sam". 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.
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