Wantoat language

Wantoat
	Taap
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Morobe Province
Native speakers	(8,200 cited 1978)[1]
Language family	Trans–New Guinea Finisterre–Huon Finisterre Wantoat languages Wantoat; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	wnc
Glottolog	want1252[2]

Wantoat, named after the Wantoat River, is one of the Finisterre languages of Papua New Guinea. Dialects are Wapu (Leron), Central Wantoat, Bam, Yagawak (Kandomin), continuing on to Awara, though the last is only 60–70% lexically similar with Wantoat and Wapu. Major Wantoat villages are Gwabogwat, Mamabam, Matap, Ginonga, Kupung.

Phonology

Consonants[3]
		Bilabial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar
		Bilabial	Alveolar	Palatal	plain	lab.
Nasal		m	n		ŋ	ŋʷ
Stop	plain	p	t		k	kʷ
Stop	pre.	ᵐb	ⁿd		ᵑɡ	ᵑɡʷ
Fricative	plain		s
Fricative	pre.		ⁿz
Approximant				j		w

Consonants clusters with mixed voicing occur within words:

okᵑɡa 'your uncle', kaotⁿdu 'half', ɡeᵐbikᵐbik 'lip', temⁿzin 'they will shoot it', kapⁿza 'strong'

i				u
e				o
		ə
	æ
			ɑ

Vowel sequences are /ie iə iɑ iu, ee eə eɑ eu, əə, ææ æə, ɑɑ ɑo ɑu, oi oə oɑ, uu/.

Syllables are minimally V and maximally CVVC. Stress is distinctive but has a low functional load.

gollark: Oh, and play games, because this includes games.

gollark: I don't know about decades, depends how fast you read/view/watch.

gollark: (as it says there, this doesn't mention music at all because bees)

gollark: https://osmarks.tk/otherstuff/ ← it's on my website.

gollark: Anyway, you might understand my jokes and stuff better if you read through my entire recommended media list, although it might take you several years.

References

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

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[e18-1] Wantoat at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Wantoat". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.