Wogamusin language

Wogamusin
Region	Ambunti District, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea (4 villages)
Native speakers	700 (1998)[1]
Language family	Sepik Middle Sepik Wogamusin Wogamusin; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	wog
Glottolog	woga1249[2]

Wogamusin is a Papuan language found in four villages in the Ambunti District of East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. It was spoken by about 700 people in 1998.[3]

Phonology

Vowels[4]
	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Mid	e	ə	o
Open		a

In non-final positions, /u/ /o/, /i/, and /e/ are [ʊ] [ɔ], [ɪ], and [ɛ], respectively. [ə] appears only in unstressed syllables; when it is followed by /w/ it is rounded: [ɵu̯].[4]

Consonants[4]
		Bilabial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar
Nasal		m	n		ŋ
Plosive	Voiceless	p	t		k
	Voiced	b	d		ɡ
	Voiced prenasalized	ᵐb	ⁿd		ᵑɡ
Fricative			s		h
Flap			ɺ
Approximant				j	w

Between vowels, /b/ and /ɡ/ lenite to the fricatives [β] and [ɣ], respectively. /s/ is realized as an affricate, [ts], word-initially. /h/ is velar, [x], after /a/ and /o/. Word-finally, voiceless stops are usually unreleased.[4]

Phonotactics

The consonant /ŋ/ only occurs finally. Bilabial and velar consonants may be followed by /w/ when initial, but otherwise consonant clusters only occur over syllable boundaries, with the exception of the unusual word /məmt/ ('snake').[5]

Pronouns

Wogamusin pronouns:[6]^:279

	sg	du	pl
1	nay	nond	non
2	ni	noh	nom
3m	ye	yoh	yor
3f	yo

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External links

Paradisec has an open access collection from Theodore Schwartz that includes Wogamusin language materials

Notes

Wogamusin at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Wogamusin". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
Ethnologue.
Laycock (1965:114)
Laycock (1965:114)
Foley, William A. (2018). "The Languages of the Sepik-Ramu Basin and Environs". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 197–432. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.

References

Laycock, D.C. (1965), "Three Upper Sepik phonologies", Oceanic Linguistics, 4 (1/2): 113–118, doi:10.2307/3622917

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

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

[ethn-3] Ethnologue.

[harvcoltxt|Laycock|1965|p=114-4] Laycock (1965:114)

[5] Laycock (1965:114)

[Foley-Sepik-6] Foley, William A. (2018). "The Languages of the Sepik-Ramu Basin and Environs". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 197–432. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.